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let’s go exploring
Because the end of Calvin and Hobbes is almost always the right beginning for anything else: Welcome to English 136; I hope you enjoy the ride.
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the enigma of image
This pretty much sums up my rest stop restroom experience. instagr.am/p/To18KrJqrW/ — Tammy Keefer (@tammykeefer) December 24, 2012
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gutters, montage, and the narrative in-between
Before Eisenstein and the more famous proponents of montage, there was Lev Kuleshov. Quoth wikipedia on the Kuleshov effect: Kuleshov edited together a short film in which a shot of the expressionless...
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Bechdel and process
Here‘s a really interesting promotional video, from around when Fun Home was released, of Alison Bechdel talking briefly about her drawing (and posing, and photographing) process, which very much...
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If you feel like a lot of the references in Sandman to other comics, other works of literature, and other mythologies are passing you by, here‘s a very useful set of page-by-page, panel-by-panel,...
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“This is magnificent—and it is true! It never happened; yet it is still true. What magic art is this?” (75; the real Puck) “Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the...
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maps, territories, fictions (oh my?)
Here’s the Waldseemüller map referred to on the last page of The Unwritten volume 1 (“The Waldseemuller map. A map is just a story when all’s said and done. In this case, the story includes ‘once...
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the unmapped
Here’s the last page of the first volume of The Unwritten, because we really need to have it in front of us. Spoiler alert? Not really.
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meanwhiling away the time
Here’s the delightful Jason Shiga talking about Meanwhile: Here’s Shiga standing with the full matrix layout of [an older version of] Meanwhile: In case you were wondering, McCloud is definitely a...
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Douglas Wolk on Salon Andrew Arnold in Time Tim O’Neil on PopMatters Vanessa Raney in ImageText Also, a couple of good interviews with Burns: VICE AVClub
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more Burns
Here’s Burns’s cover for Iggy Pop’s Brick by Brick (1990): And a couple of his covers from The Believer magazine:
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