Prehistory and Miscellany

Claws and Effects (August 8, 1993): How special effects are transforming movie-making in the year of Jurassic Park. How long will it be till computer animators achieve their holy grail: realistic, full-body human modeling? A report from SIGGRAPH 1993.
Multimedia Forest, CD-ROM Trees (April 2, 1993): An industry struggles to find an identity, while creative shoots grow between the technological cracks. A report from the 1993 Intermedia conference.
A Virtual Reality Check (April 19, 1992): What is virtual reality and what will it be? An extended inquiry, with five comic interludes.
The Videogame Plumber as Existential Hero (September 1, 1991): A profile of Mario, Nintendo's nimble Nietzschean Everyman.