Spider (disambiguation)

A spider is a type of arthropod.

Spider or Spiders may also refer to:

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People

Art, entertainment, and media

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Fictional entities

The Spiders (film)

The Spiders (German: Die Spinnen) is a German silent serial adventure film written and directed by Fritz Lang. It was released in two parts in 1919 and 1920. Two more parts were originally planned but never made.

Plot

In San Francisco, well-known sportsman, adventurer and traveller Kay Hoog announces to his club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The message with the map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. He starts an expedition to find the treasure. The crime syndicate "Die Spinnen" sends out a rival expedition led by the beautiful but dangerous Lio Sha. At the Golden Lake Hoog saves the Inca priestess Naela and falls in love with her. He takes her home with him after discovering a mysterious clue about a diamond ship. Back in San Francisco, Lio Sha declares her love for Hoog but he rejects her in favour of Naela. Lio Sha has Naela murdered and Kay Hoog swears revenge.

Patrick Farley

Patrick Sean Farley is a freelance illustrator and Web page designer working out of Oakland, California.

Biography

Patrick Farley is the creator of comics under the anthology "Electric Sheep Comix". Scott McCloud cites him as an early pioneer of the webcomics movement. He is the author of a semi-autobiographical webcomics graphic novel The Guy I Almost Was and of several other Web based comics or stories, listed below.

In addition to the traditional strip format Farley has presented work in the infinite canvas mode peculiar to the more innovative web comics, and he has done many stories using 3D tools such as Poser and Bryce.

The Web Comics Examiner wrote a story about Farley's work in December 2004 titled "Patrick Farley, Apocalyptic Utopian".

Farley appeared in Adventures Into Digital Comics, a 2006 documentary on the comics industry.

Electric Sheep Comix

Electric Sheep Comix is a Web-based anthology of Farley's work. The name was taken from the title of Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". It was originally hosted at the domain e-sheep.com, but the domain registration lapsed, and after being offline for 2 years, the site was restarted in August 2009, at a new domain.