Even bigger announcement: Skeleton has won Best Paper (top 1%) at IEEE VIS this year!! 🎉 VIS is my home community and I am deeply indebted to many of the people in it. I take a little time to pontificate on what "best paper" means to me (or rather, what I think it should really be about):

Child mortality has declined in all world regions. In 1950, almost one in four children worldwide died before their fifth birthday. In Africa, one in three children died. The chart shows the change since then. In every region, the mortality rate of children has declined.

phosphor hit #1 on my weekly data visualization brief

Finland gets the “ways to divide a country” treatment.

I did this recently for our place in SF and was surprised how much information is still locked away in micro film. Also, AI agent was insanely great at digging up tons of information I would not have found in any other way. 

Ancestry dot com for buildings

'You'll choke too' - I wanted to reshare my wildfire aerial embroidery now summer is finally over as it really meant a lot to me. Autumn is here but as the fruit ripened much earlier than normal, I worry the little birds and animals won't have enough for the winter...

I'll wrap this thread as it's moved in many directions beyond panel breaking weirdness and into general comics space/time cool-ness, but good to close with something from Fred - from the Philemon books (annoyingly still not in English - though I bought this one in Paris) - these are such a treat!