Multi-talented artist Nylon Pinkney is taking a brief hiatus from her weekly comic for New World Notes*, but that doesn't mean you'll miss her creativity in the interim. For instance, here's a spectacular dress she created featuring her hand-drawn portraits of Marie Antoinette -- now available in Second Life's epic Collabor88 shopping extravaganza. This year's Collabor88 theme being "Let Them Eat Cake", Nylon made this dress perfectly fit to be guillotined in. Note also Nylon's nails -- close-up here.
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The Coronavirus-Themed Fashion Event in Second Life Isn't Real -- But The Need to Joke In Dark Times Is (Comment of the Week)
Nylon Pinkney's latest comic about a Covid-19-themed fashion event in Second Life garnered some interesting responses, with some in Comments and many across social media (especially Facebook) accidentally assuming it was an actual virtual world event. So to clarify: No, the one described in her comic is not. However, that's not stopping other COVID-19 hijinks from ensuing online:
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Other readers found the comic (and other attempts at Coronavirus-themed humor) to be in bad taste. And while I can ultimately only speak for myself, I do think reader "Fionalein" speaks for many: