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4th Blogiversary

Today, after what seems like months of build up, is Primary day in Pennsylvania. It’s also my 4th blogiversary.
Here are a few bits and pieces from the past year that might entice you to visit the archives:
On American Elf: “Comics is often spoken of as an art of subtraction or omission. What is left out [...]

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2008 04 22 Comments (3)

Panels & Pictures: Text

My latest Panels & Pictures column is up at ComixTalk. Titled “Text in Comics”, I made an illustrated list of uses of text in comics. Some of it may be familiar from readers of this blog, as I borrowed from a few past reviews. This surface look at the topic has got me thinking more [...]

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2008 04 15 Theory and Practice Comments (0)

Conference Blogging: CIL2008

I spent the early part of this week in Arlington, VA at Computers in Libraries 2008. As in previous years I drew presenters, you can see my sketches at my Flickr account.
More comics writing next week.

Tags: cil2008, sketches

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2008 04 10 Comments (0)

Pettibon Abstract Comic

Baseball month isn’t over yet, but due to other obligations, my post on H2 is delayed a bit. In the meantime here’s something I found recently. This is piece by Raymond Pettibon from Raymond Pettibon: Plots Laid Thick (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona : Distributed by Actar, 2002). This one’s for Andrei.

Tags: abstraction, abstract_comics

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2008 04 02 Comments (1)

More on Definitions

My latest ComixTalk Panels & Pictures column is up: Definition Redux. I returned to last month’s topic, in response to Neil Cohn, and following some citations from an article he mentioned. It ended up being longer than I expected, but that sets me up with more time for next month’s topic on point of view, [...]

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2008 03 17 Theory and Practice Comments (2)