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infinite canvas is left to right scroll; blogs etc are top to bottom scroll. what's up with that? can you do both? Scott McCloud at Eastern Michigan University. Wifi is campus-only. New Book: Making Comics. How do you blog a talk that's primarily visual? Lots of frames very quickly illustrating what he is talking about. Ch 1. Writing w/pictures. Nb: intensity and clarity are in inverse proportion. Ch 3. Power of words. Comics is a medium of fragments. Ch 4. World building. Ch 5. Tools techniques technology. Ch 6. Your place in comics. Style chooses you. Manga, genre evolution, "the four tribes" The Four Tribes He's been sitting on it 12 yrs, "my toxic theory", not necessariily good for you. Amazing slideshow, going as fast as he can with slides illustrating his life history. transparent; beauty; expression and authentic and visceral; (scott) comics as form, testing and experimenting with it classicist; animist; formalist; iconoclast - divides the world into pieces; could be a reason to blame him for divisiveness, "oh you would not understand you're an animist" That "Infinite Canvas" thing learn from everyone, follow no one; watch for pattersn; work like hell *watch for patterns*! stories as sequential imagery technology of print gives comics its shape...what comes after when we go from print to computers? pre-print comics: continuous unbroken line; print, edge of page does not turn, but has page breaks; page is limited space, monitor is limited space, what next? unless the monitor is a window on a larger space. does not go down well at low speeds; the web does just fine with page shaped small comics self produced, creating small communities. "cheerful nerds". "PUP" ponders the head death of the universe. drew weing. left to right continuous strip. continuous canvas, not just turning a page. moving camera = just screwing around. experimenters try anything and everything, then storytellers pick it up and say "hey we know what to do with this". e-sheep.com. you never see whitespace in mainstream comics - people aren't paying for it so it's free. 100 years of 1/4 in gutters. now frequency moderation. new space: pocom-uk-001 comics engine comics -> moving pictures? one panel/screen, let the comic wash over you. pocom-uk-001 is whole graphic novel that you can navigate through. (n.b. does that turn into Second Life? or mud/mooo with comics? emv) re-enter our world thorugh multiple viewpoints. |
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