Month: November 2023
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Marvelous Market: Comics I’m Buying the Week of November 29
Yet another five Wednesday month. One might assume, given that calendars are set in advance and we all can scroll down to any given year, five Wednesday months don’t make much of a difference. This is not the case. SKTCHD wrote a whole article about the weirdness of the fifth Wednesday of a month. All…
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Are the Invincible comic book fights better than the TV show?
Invincible # 2 and Crafting Satisfying Action through Setups and Payoffs In Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud introduces the concept of closure, “the phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole“. Much of the magic of comics is built upon this one weird trick. When two images are placed in sequence, a reader interprets them…
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Marvelous Market: Comics I’m Buying the Week of November 22
It’s the week of Thanksgiving here in the United States. Perhaps you are visiting family, and need an escape. More optimistically, you want to know what comics to buy your nerdy family so you can look cool. I can’t promise to make your father proud of you, but I can tell you what comics I’m…
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Imprinted Image: Comics I read and Zine for sale the week of November 17
You may recall that this is week one of a two-week break from the main Divining Comics articles. I know it’s tragic, but I wanted to build it into the schedule in order to stay on top of things. It takes a lot of time to read comics and write the posts. But, I have…
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Marvelous Market: Comics I’m Buying the Week of November 15
Pick of the Week Hexagon Bridge # 3 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to become a fan of an all-time great comics creator from the ground floor? I have a feeling I’m learning what that is like for the first time with Richard Blake’s Hexagon Bridge. Everything from the cover design…
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Imprinted Image: Comics, and other arts of perhaps equal value, I read the week of November 10
Before the bulk of this, I should note that I’ve created a tip jar! Just click here if you’d like to send a few dollars my way to support what I do here. Through that same site, I’m planning on releasing a printable zine of the first batch of articles, as well as the option…
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Go Anywhere You Want
20th Century Men # 1 and Time Travel via Style If you read a comic, where are you? Oftentimes we read comics in homes, at libraries, in schools, on public transit, and so many other locations. But one location you might not realize you are reading from is within the comic, in between the front…
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Marvelous Market: Comics I’m Buying the Week of November 8
Pick of the Week Transformers # 2 I’m as surprised as anyone about this. I’ve never been a Transformers fan. I have not seen a single episode of the original series or read any comics before the first issue. I think I watched two or three of the Michael Bay movies. Despite this, I’m very…
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Imprinted Image: Comics, and lesser arts, I read the week of November 3
Before the bulk of this, I should note that I’ve created a tipjar! Just click here if you’d like to send a few dollars my way to support what I do here. I might mess around with that as this develops, for example, by including zines/PDFs of the Divining Comics pieces or allowing the commissioning…