Voted Internet Magazine's Cool Site of the Day, winner of the Talespinner Award, Daryl Cagle's "Top Pencil" Award, and The Medaille d'Or for Site Excellence, Peter Zale's Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet has taken the Internet by storm and is now making its move to newspaper syndication. This alternative comic strip will be making the unprecedented move from the electronic underground to the forefront of comic strip mainstream this summer and includes new, never-before- seen material. The strip appeals to techies and non-techies alike with its unique blend of geek savvy and techno-phobic attitude. Techies Unite centers on a beautiful and brilliant computer geek who at twenty-four runs the information systems department of a large company. Peter Zales's strip brings to light the comic ironies about humankind that have come about due to the rapid advances in technology.
From the Back Cover
Welcome to the Digital Age...
Yesterday's propeller-headed geeks are today's trillion-dollar titans. Your grandmother just launched her own website. The revolution will not, in fact, be televise dit will be webcast. And forget about those corporate suits upstairs in the corner office, because it's the techies who hold all the real business power today. It's a strange new worldand nobody embodies the high-tech zeitgeist more thoroughly, more knowingly, or more hilariously, than...Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet (IT'S HER UNIVERSE. WE JUST LIVE IN IT).
Peter zale's award-winning, internationnaly syndicated, and always razor-sharp comic-strip heroinenow starring in her very first book!
Peter Zale's Techies Unite is a merciless, dead-on, and effortlessly hip send-up of the modern-day digital office. And Helen is an unforgettable creationa sarcasm-laden smart bomb waiting to explode, a wry observer of technology's myriad drawbacks, and an irony-dripping fusion of geek savvy and cyber-punk attitude. That's our Helen. She's no sweetheart.
"Peter Zale and his Helen will lead cartoons into the new world."From the Foreword by Mike Peters, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist
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