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The Rosetta Stone of comics as a whole. Hee.

A black and white photo of McCay.

An installment of Little Nemo in which his toy animals slowly grow and come to life over eight panels.

Today is the birthday of cartoonist, illustrator, & animator Winsor McCay (Sept. 26, 1869-July 26, 1934). Best known for the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland and his early work in animation, particularly on Gertie the Dinosaur (1914).

An absolute titan in both animation and comics. Created key frames. He made animation what we know of as animation. You could read it in Little Nemo as well.

Well, at least one of the major things.

Page layouts are what turns a regular comic into a real memorable comic imo.

There are some creators in alt manga youd probably like where they depict ugly people, e.g Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Ebisu Yoshikazu, etc

I read it, in what context does that make 'all us comics look the same to me' any different?

US comics aren't just superheroes, there is a wide variety of styles available.

I don't feel there's that many great writers or stories I care about in that way, and i've always been an art focused person, so ymmv.

I personally feel the opposite, as i'm not looking for an emotional tearjerker, but experimental art that makes me go 'wow, that's insane art, how do you do something like this', but i do like a good mix of both sometimes.

I wish he made this into a comic. But its still a very cool book!

Also yes to separate accordion format.

The opening chapter (which has nothing to do with stars) is this 22 page continuous sequence - starting that way has made me very attuned to the spread, wasn’t my intent, but almost all the pages of the book since take advantage of spreads - not sure I can break that habit!
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How in the world is this going to be printed? This is insanity. It just won't hit the same as a page turn.

It's a great book! Check out Yotsuba as well, if you haven't. A slice of life classic.

I want the hardcovers, but the softcovers might make a good reading experience for a comic like this. I will have to think about it haha. It is half the price of the HCs after all. Thanks!

@davekellett.bsky.social how long does the sale for the books last? I don't have the money atm (and likely won't for another month or so)

Jhonen Vasquez and Demon Summoner Gash Gash

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been meaning to pick up the hardcover set for these.

I'm extremely excited for it, but i'm sure it's a lot of pressure.

cat cafe?

They had a b1g1 sale on their website which pretty much just signaled a cleaning out stock sale.

a spread for a comics page, black background, with white panel borders and most the drawings white on black. upper left of the spread, a swirl of the start of a star - emanating out from it in radiating arms, a number of different paths in brick-like interconnected panel border shapes. First radiating down and to the left the life of a brown dwarf - which never quite becomes a start. the next branch goes mostly down - a red dwarf which burns longer than the current life of the universe, but the path forks near the bottom, because some of these alternately flare up during their life. the next path is a dwarf star - much like our own - which is stable until it puffs up late in its life, then burst off much of its material to become a white dwarf. Here the path forks - in one branch it lives on as a white dwarf and nebula, in the other, when it has a partner star, it steals material from it and eventually becomes a type 1A supernova. Overlaid a bit on this set of paths and the red dwarf is an example of a binary star system and a six star system. Emanating from the middle of these paths from upper left and going across the spine of the book to the lower right, is a path filled with galaxies - the path loses its border in the middle showing a collection of galaxies. Upper right path is a blue super giant as we move right it goes nova becoming in one forking path a black hole, in another a spinning neutron star - and that forks to either continue or if paired, collide to go supernova and create heavy elements. Middle of right side, molecules formed by chemistry with these atoms forged in stars. new swirls form, and then we see another generation of stars in a grid set of panels and the Planets! formed around them. This is a generational cycle and the text reflects that

Finished spread! The lives of different types of stars, the various ways they give back all they had taken in changed, and the new forms they give rise to! This took me some time to say the least! It's a lively place out there! On to the next spread (finale of this chapter!!)
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I own this art book of his, its one of my very favorite and I own over 100. It's huge as well.

Oh i know who the mecha artist is now, that looks right up my alley.

Interesting teaser.. i found it might be Kishi Omori but that doesn't make sense for manga. So i'm not sure.

I still have yet to read any Paul Pope, heavy liquid looks like a good place to start.

I'm gonna be new to your works, so this was a welcome surprise. Have heard of this stuff before. I'm not much familiar, though.

Sick cover, 1 day after my birthday. This will be a good birthday gift.

EC? I barely knew her! Harold Gray:

Though hey, some EC is definitely as bad.