All Posts2010 December
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Best Print Comics of 2010
A quick disclaimer: Like previous years, my list is a mix of comics first published this year, comics first translated this year, comics republished/collected this year, and comics from previous years that I first read this year. I haven’t read a lot of the big books of the year that I see appearing on other [...]
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Enso and Haiga
If it’s not already obvious from the comics I’ve posted in the past month, I’ve been looking at (and reading about) a lot of Asian ink/brush art lately. In particular a lot of this art has been zen or poetry related. (Japanese film director Yasujiro Ozu was also a big influence on a few of [...]
![[Roughly putting a French translation back into English: My line constantly brings to mind it's existence as ink. I call on the complicity of my reader who transforms the line into meaning, using our common well of culture, history, and poetry. - Saul Steinberg.]](http://madinkbeard.com/blog/wp-content/images/tessier_quadrilogues_17-207x300.jpg "tessier_quadrilogues_17")
