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Freedom within Boundaries - Presentation
I spoke in Second Life at Met@Morph, the first annual Web Comics Comic-Con and Conference, on Friday October 3rd (today). My presentation was called “Freedom within Boundaries: the Theory and Practice of Constraint in Comics.” I only had 20 minutes so it’s a fairly shallow look at the topic. You can see the slides here (1mb pdf).
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Calpurnio
I first heard about the Spanish cartoonist Calpurnio from a discussion by Thierry Groensteen in his La Bande DessineĢe: mode d’emploi (more on that in the future). Calpurnio uses stick figures and minimalist backgrounds, a very clean and iconic style. Unfortunately, his work is in Spanish so I can only vaguely make out the text [...]
(Continue Reading...)More on SL Comicon and “my” poems
Comics blogger Sean Kleefield was at the con yesterday and has a write-up with screenshots, including one of me presenting:
In other news about me, or not about me as the case is here, a couple poets/artists/? released “For Godot” issue 1, a 3785 page PDF that has about that many poems attributed to a huge [...]
Helen Lundeberg
Sonic Youth’s most recent album, “Rather Ripped,” has a song called “Helen Lunderberg”. Over an almost tribal marching band drum the lyrics begin:
Helen Lundeberg
illusory landscape
five decades of paint
A couple of weeks ago (yes, it took awhile for me to post this) I finally looked up the name. Not surprisingly, Helen Lundeberg is a 20th century [...]
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