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Repetition Sound Appropriation
I’ve just uploaded a pdf version of my minicomic from last year, “Repetition. Sound. Appropriation.” for your reading pleasure.
It’s a collection of experiments and variations involving the things named in the title: a five page set of variations on a repetition, two pages of variations on displaying music in comics, a 2 page story of appropriated comic strip landscapes with the characters excised (sample above), 2 pages of a voice over experimentation, and the final version of the “Stolen Birthday Present” constraint. It’s 16 pages long. You can still get the paper version for $2.50ppd or a trade.
(READ ON...)Auden on Critics
What is the function of a critic? So far as I am concerned, he can do me one or more of the following services:
1. Introduce me to authors or works of which I was hitherto unaware.
2. Convince me that I have undervalued an author or a work because I had not read them carefully enough.
3. [...]
Mullins on The Aesthetics of Comics
Nick Mullins writes about David Carrier’s The Aesthetics of Comics. I have to say, I was excited by the prospect (aesthetics! comics!) of Carrier’s book until I started reading it. The whole aspect of word balloons being a defining aspect of comics discredited Carrier with me. I never did finish the book.
Tags: comicstheory
(READ ON...)Things Change is Two
Today is the second anniversary of my webcomic, Things Change: The Metamorphoses Comic. You can click over and read the current episode, though if you haven’t been following you may want to start at the beginning of the whole series or maybe at the beginning of Book Three.
Tags: anniversary, webcomic
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