Category: Comics
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Postscript: Understanding Comics
Towards the end of January, the 99% Invisible podcast ran an episode with eminent comics creator and scholar Scott McCloud about the design features of comics. It’s a great episode that provides a good thumbnail sketch of some of comics’ most important formal elements. I first read comics in grocery checkout lines. My grandmother used to…
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Read Harder #4: Dead Balagtas Vol. 1: Mga Sayaw ng Dagat at Lupa
It’s easy to feel divorced from history. As a kid, I saw all my history lessons at a remove: upheavals, struggle, significance occupied a different plane of existence, and they had no place in my humdrum life, as I had no place in theirs. An ignorant belief to have harbored, for sure, and one that…
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