Good friend and fellow Blacksmith for Literary Progress Tim Hall has a brand new exclusive series live on Act-i-Vate titled “Uplift the Positivicals.” Never one to do the same thing twice, this is Tim’s experiment in text comics. The first installment, “San Diego Sutra” went live a couple of weeks ago. Having just read Chapter 2, I can tell you the prose poem keeps getting better with each installment.

Click on these links to view each chapter:
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2

You can also pre-order Tim’s new non-fiction book-length essay, How America Died: A Letter to the Future. The first printing is only 25 copies, and won’t be for sale anywhere except through Tim. Each copy will be numbered and signed, with an original, corrected manuscript page tipped in.

And of course if you aren’t hip to Act-i-Vate, do check out the innovative work there. Conceived by Dean Haspiel, the site has become a home for outstanding web comics by some of my favorite graphic artists (both old and new) including Dean himself, Nick Bertozzi, Rami Efal, and Josh Neufeld. Do give it a spin, you won’t be disappointed.