There's a lot to absorb in all of the material posted yesterday for Maybe Day at the Maybeday.net website. I read and listened to quite a lot, and I expect to write about some of it during the next few days.
I read the first section of Tales of Illuminatus pretty much right away, and it's a very promising start. And I want to talk for a moment about the new Kickstarter launched for the first issue of the projected series of comic books covering the entire trilogy.
I've made a pledge and I'm hoping many of you will join me.
We can all hope that someday there will be a TV miniseries adaptation of Illuminatus! on Netflix or Apple or Amazon Prime or some other video streaming service, and that it will be artistically and commercially successful, boosting a work many of us believe deserves wider attention. There have been efforts to get that done that haven't come to fruition yet. As of right now, the Tales of Illuminatus project by Bobby Campbell and his collaborators, which they are obviously working very hard on, is what we've got as a way to draw attention to the original work. The new Tales of Illuminatus Substack is a good place to find out more about what's going on.
The guy helming the project, Bobby Campbell, has spent many years promoting everybody else's projects, for example at his Maybe Day website (which has an archive of past Maybe Day collections) and at his Robert Anton Wilson account on X/Twitter, which has more than 6,000 followers. I personally owe Bobby a lot for his support and generosity, and the new Kickstarter is -- maybe -- a way to pay him back a little bit.
UPDATE: Help in getting the word out would also be useful. If you are on social media, or you have a blog, or some other way of reaching people, please consider providing a signal boost.
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