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    Wider Horizons: The Comic Book Medium Evolves (Comics Studies 003)

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    | Barbara Yellin, blutch, eleanor davis, Hey Cartoonists, Jamie Hernandez, jason shiga, Kate Beaton, lisa hanawalt, Lucas Varela, nick drnaso, noah van sciver, rokudenashiko, Sara Glidden, Syndicated, Tom Hart
    November 28, 2017
    Random Thoughts on the Syllabus For me, it was tough figuring out where to start reading the best comics of 2016, where to even start looking for them. I had heard of the Eisner Awards, but I didn’t think to look there because what I knew of the Eisners mostly featured mainstream action and superhero comics. […]
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    Prehistory of Comics Part 5: A Harlot’s Progress and A Rake’s Progress

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    | a harlot's progress, a rake's progress, eleanor davis, Hey Cartoonists, how to be happy, Syndicated, william hogarth
    October 18, 2017
    The Splash Page Two series of paintings by British painter William Hogarth done in the 1730s are exemplary of the ways that sequential visual storytelling would eventually function in comics and graphic novels in the 20th century (and beyond!!!). Past the Page Turn So the 18th century seems like it was very much. There’s the religious […]
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    Prehistory of Comics Part 4: The Bayeux Tapestry

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    | battle of hastings, bayeux tapestry, edward the confessor, harold godwinson, Hey Cartoonists, Syndicated
    October 18, 2017
    The Splash Page A 230-foot-long (over that, really) wool-on-linen artifact commemorating the 11th-century Battle of Hastings brings our tour of proto-comics into the second millennium. Past the Page Turn When Edward the Confessor died in 1066, the English crown was claimed by his brother, Harold Godwinson, the most powerful of the English lords at the […]
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    Prehistory of Comics Part 3: Trajan’s Column

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    | ancient rome, dacia, emperor trajan, Hey Cartoonists, Syndicated, trajan's column
    October 18, 2017
    The Splash Page One of the major monuments to survive the fall of the Roman empire, Trajan’s Column commemorates two wars fought by Emperor Trajan and the Roman armies against the Dacians in what is modern-day Romania. The column features a massive, single frieze including scenes of construction, diplomacy, warfare, and enslavement. Past the Page […]
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    Prehistory of Comics Part 2: Mayan Pictographs

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    | cuneiform, glyph, heiroglyphics, Hey Cartoonists, mayan pictograph, Syndicated
    October 10, 2017
    The Splash Page Mayan pictographs are just one blip on a long and still evolving timeline of human efforts to combine images and language. Chinese ideograms, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform all worked in different ways to translate and transform sound into images and images into sound. The way we think about comics can be […]
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    The Prehistory of Comics

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    | Hey Cartoonists, history of comics, mcsweeneys 13, rodolphe topffer, Syndicated, the standard of ur, the yellow kid
    September 27, 2017
    Where to Start Before You Start Santiago Garcia points out in his great book of comics history and criticism, On the Graphic Novel, that people tend to trace the beginning of comic books back to an individual moment, usually either Rodolphe Töpffer’s histoires de estampes in the 19th century or to the massively popular, serialized comic […]
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    The Best Comics of 2016

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    | blutch, Charlie Chan Hock Chye, Daniel Clowes, disquiet, eleanor davis, Hey Cartoonists, how to be happy, irmina, jason shiga, lisa hanawalt, march, nick drnaso, patience, peplum, rokudenashiko, rolling blackouts, saint cole, Syndicated
    September 21, 2017
    For me, it was tough figuring out where to start reading the best comics of 2016, where to even start looking for them. I had heard of the Eisner Awards, but I didn’t think to look there because what I knew of the Eisners mostly featured mainstream action and superhero comics. I was looking for […]
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  9. B. Short

    Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt and How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis

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    | eleanor davis, Hey Cartoonists, hot dog taste test, how to be happy, lisa hanawalt, Syndicated
    September 1, 2017
    Covered: Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt, How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis So I can’t remember how I found Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt. I know it was listed on the Comics Journal’s neverending “best of 2016” list, but I started reading it before I ever read that. I only […]
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    The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye Presented by Sonny Liew

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    | Charlie Chan Hock Chye, comics, Hey Cartoonists, Singapore, Sonny Liew, Syndicated
    August 30, 2017
    I spend a lot of time–probably too much time–weighing the speed at which a comic wants to be read. Novels are easy–a chapter per sitting. Short stories are easy–one story per sitting. Even if you don’t live up to your side of that bargain as a reader, that’s still the intended cadence, and you can […]
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