3 Poems About Fog by John Porcellino. King-Cat, 2006. 5.5″ x 8.5″.
The Ones that Everybody Knows by John Porcellino. King-Cat, 2006. 4.25″ x 5.5″.
I’ve been meaning to learn more constellations. My apartment entrance is up a flight of stairs and across a roof/deck, so coming home in the evenings, I have the sky spread out [...]
Neil Cohn offered some helpful comments on my first comics haiku experiment from last week. He suggested a form with more panels but varying the amount of entities in the panel (using his Lexical Representation Matrix from this article (pdf)). This better codifies some of the things I was thinking about as far as panel [...]
Also tagged webcomicI’ve always enjoyed the concision and simple beauty of the Japanese haiku. Not just the three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, but also the thematics and content restrictions: a season is mentioned, nature is prominent, an emotion is conveyed indirectly (or variations on these). I’ve begun to experiment with translating this into comics [...]
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