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  • Comics software sucks

    I apologize in advance for this rant… One of the pre-installed applications on my new macbook is the “comic” making program “Comic Life.” I’d played with the demo before, but figured I’d jump back in with this one to see what was changed. What didn’t change was my opinion of it: not good. (It’s basically…

  • New Article: Visual Poetry

    Flatteringly ask and you shall receive: After a bit of a haitus, I finally have a new Comic Theory 101 article up Comixpedia entitled “Visual Poetry.” Expanding on my riff on poetry from the last article I did on “Seeing Rhymes,” this one explores what a formal visual poetic structure might be like. Throughout the…

  • LiwLi updated, links

    I probably won’t continue commenting for every post of my new Meditations piece “Life is where Love is,” but I’ve always loved today’s page for some reason. Maybe I just got the blacks right or something… I don’t know. Anyhow, the “visual essay” now enters its body… Also, in taking a procrastination break from devising…

  • Grab Bag Comics

    Back in like February of this year when I was living in Chicago, I went out to mail a package at the local UPS store. I happened to be mailing one of my Meditations books and the guy behind the counter, Chuck, started querying me about my interest in comics. It turned out that he…

  • More on LiwLi

    So, with this latest post of my new Meditations story “Life is where Love is,” I figured I should fill in a bit more info about it. The piece was the first of my more “conceptual” approaches to structuring comic stories. If you can even call it a story. Or a narrative. I’ve always thought…

  • CCS trip

    Today I made my trip up to Vermont to talk with the fine folks at the Center for Cartoon Studies. It was quite fun, and gave me a nice break from grad school as well as a little exploratory New England adventure. I presented my talk on visual language grammar and I thought that the…

  • New Comic: Life is where Love is

    At long last since the start of grad school, I’ve got a new (old) comic up at my Webcomicsnation Meditations series. Despite the somewhat corny title, this is actually the oldest piece I’m putting up there, originally drawn waaaay back in 1998 (hence the more “raw” look to it stylistically). This is actually the story…

  • Links of note

    Rob Vollmar has posted another installment of his “Rage of Angels” essays. This one examines some of Outcault’s Hogan’s Alley works. While I’m fairly ambivilent to historical-literary analyses of these types, I hit Rob with some pretty hard comments on his last essays, so I figured I should point out that this one reads pretty…

  • New toy!

    Despite being a vacuum of Free Time, Grad School does seem to have its perks. Take for instance the brand spankin’ new Macbook that my (three!) advisors all pitched in to help me get. The lab I’m in runs on Windows, so we’re going to turn this computer into a dual boot Mac… pretty cool…

  • Talk at Center for Cartoon Studies Oct 26th

    One of the great new things I’m discovering about living in New England is that lots of cool stuff is all close together (coming from California, nothing is close together). One of those cool things is the Center for Cartoon Studies up in Vermont. Since its so nearby, I’ve arranged to give a talk up…