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  • Thoughts on Time

    I’ve had a couple very interesting (and heated) discussions about “time” with friends recently that might be interesting to share. What had inspired one of these discussions was a book I’d read that implied that human’s ability for narrative gave way to ideas of past, present, and future, and thus a sense of time that…

  • BNS, an overdue plug

    Much to my surprise, Joe Zabel gives me a little hat-tip in his excellent review of Butternutsquash over at The Webcomics Examiner. Joe makes some great observations, and I wish he dissected the aesthetic qualities of even more of the strips. To be honest, BNS may just be my favorite webcomic, and really I could…

  • “Comic” Theory 101: Seeing Rhymes

    At long last, I finally have a new “Comic” Theory 101 article up at Comixpedia. This one delves into the possibilities of “visual rhyming” and how we can play with it in practice, particularly in visual poetry. For those who are curious, the first two examples come from a piece I did waaaaay back in…

  • Manga Literacy

    I’ve made a couple additions to the Reference Bibliography, including this one: Nakazawa, Jun. 2005. Development of Manga (Comic Book) Literacy in Children. In Shwalb, David, Jun Nakazawa, Barbara (Eds). Applied developmental psychology: Theory, practice, and research from Japan. Pp. 23-42 This English piece is a nice summary of the work of Japanese Psychologist Jun…

  • 4 years

    I forgot to post it a few days ago, but back on Wednesday it marked the fourth anniversary of the emaki.net website! Hooray! I’ve been a bit busy these days and rationing my typing/drawing time, but I’ll try to post reviews this week of some good articles I’ve read lately.

  • An Inconvenient Truth

    I just saw Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth today, and man, all I can say is that everyone out there should see this movie. It is powerful, compelling, and downright scary. It very clearly and eloquently lays out the dangers of global warming, as well as gives a strong insight into Gore and his…

  • Was the 2004 election stolen?

    Robert Kennedy Jr.’s cover story article in this month’s Rolling Stone provides fairly overwhelming and irrefutable evidence that the winner of the 2004 presidential election was not GWB. I highly recommend that everyone read the article, despite its length. No right in America is more important than our right to vote, and the fact that…

  • Corporate friendster

    On his radio show today Thom mentioned this fascinating/scary site that shows the degrees of separation between board members of major corporations. If any person out there doubts that the a small handful of people control most of the wealth and influence in this country, this site fairly clearly shows the connections upfront. I highly…

  • “Cartooning Symbolia”

    Derik points to this comic, Cartooning Symbolia, by Dash Shaw that uses Mort Walkers terms from The Lexicon of Comicana for various symbolic elements of the graphic medium. It’s an interesting experiment in formalism, and I especially appreciate the last twelve panels that introduce “new symbols,” which well exemplifies the complete conventionality of symbols given…

  • La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Part Deux!

    So, today begins the posting of another version of the John Keats poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci. After I had done the initial version, I was reading through and old poetry book of my father and aunt’s which featured the poem, and along the margins I saw notes interpreting the poem in a different…