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What’s Your Comics-to-Crap Ratio?
Douglas Rushkoff is offering an online preview of a new comic called X (Heidi’s comments here). Looks like a fairly cool comic, with some pretty art by Cheoljoo Lee and Younger Yang. And as usual, the format got me thinking. The preview is your basic repurposed printed comic book on the ...
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Nov. 5, 2009: Carrying it over
Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal — ... has grown exponentially. Artists are no longer limited by syndicates, newspapers’ editorial pages, or the boys club typically associated with comics. With the Internet, artists can convey an image how they want to, using any idea, for as long as they need to tell the story.” (Link trail: Brigid Alverson ← When Fangirls Attack.)   [Commentary] What’s your comics-to-crap ratio? Link: Scott McCloud “So I thought, hey, there are really only three types of pixels ...

Whatevah It's Friday
COMIXTALK — ... Scott McCloud has a post (and comment thread) on the ratio of comic to controls (navigatin) to crap (everything else) on the screen.   ...

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/9/09
THE BEAT — ... through Levi-Strauss that I discovered the structure of the Grail Myth which can be summarized as this: The bumpkin must prove himself worthy to be in the presence of great the Grail’s enormous power. So that can be Parsifal not asking the Fisher King what the Horn of Plenty is, Dorothy not asking what all the excitement is about regarding the Ruby slippers, or Luke Skywalker flipping up the mechanical gun sight and trusting the Force. § Scott McCloud and his commenters regard the “crap” that fills many ...

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