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cover to Mister Invincible and one interior page. It does some crazy-mind bending things where the character can see the structure of the comic book that he is in and so can act with that knowledge and jump out of the panels

two interior pages to Mister Invincible. It does some crazy-mind bending things where the character can see the structure of the comic book that he is in and so can act with that knowledge and jump out of the panels

and yes, for all those asking, I am most certainly familiar with Pascal Jousselin's Mr. Invincible! It is brilliant, I was sharing the excerpts I found online for years before it came out in the US. He is relentlessly inventive with the comics form – every single page does something fascinating!

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That’s great, Brian! (And I seem to have one of your former students in my program!)

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The reason she SHOULD have been fired.

yes, of course, I share mr. Invincible with students all the time, and have been from when I could only get French scans - and then was blown away when the full book finally showed up in English, he is relentlessly creative, just doesn't quit page after page...

ah - understood!
(folding - things like how to fold in thirds is far more challenging than you can imagine - instead of 9 sections we get anywhere from 6 to 12 every time...)

Portland State is opening our comics writing class to the public for this special event in celebration of Will Eisner week. join us from anywhere in the world. It is free. It is celebratory. If you love comics and their history, this is a must.

that's great to get them doing that and sad to think about never having sent mail! (Though that said, I have class do various folding things to make comics - and that is always the thing that nearly breaks them. so maybe it's something more basic that's going on?)

but other than that, how was the play mrs. Lincoln?

to say the least, @tomgauld.bsky.social never misses and frequently blows your mind conceptually. Case in point from a recent-ish comic

this is amazing and one I've never seen before! I'm a huge fan - such a smart cartoonist - of concept and form. Never misses. Thanks for sharing! This is a recent favorite

where are these hideous betting markets on this...

single comics pages from Here and How Things Work Out side-by-side. Here is black and white and in a six panel grid format, with inset panels overlaid on some of the main panels, with a year identifying when each panel takes place. HTWO is arranged in four horizontal full with panels, each tier taking place in a different year and different level of a single building, going from 1999 at top, 1979 next, 1959, and 1939 at the bottom tier. The story can be read both across each row or in normal reading order, or other possibilities...

single comics pages from Here and How Things Work Out side-by-side. Here is black and white and in a six panel grid format, with inset panels overlaid on some of the main panels, with a year identifying when each panel takes place. HTWO is arranged in four horizontal full with panels, each tier taking place in a different year and different level of a single building, going from 1999 at top, 1979 next, 1959, and 1939 at the bottom tier. The story can be read both across each row or in normal reading order, or other possibilities...

Central to my class is showing Ss how weird & cool comics are, & explore all the possibilities for how they might approach making them - this includes sharing McGuire's Here alongside Moore/Veitch's Greyshirt:How Things Work Out - both defy linear reading & absolutely could only be done in comics...

I always have a student come up to the screen and try and read the Al-Rabin one to the rest of class. This time, the student did a phenomenal job, inserted a lot of implied dialogue and just nailed the way it moves back and forth. Super fun!

absolutely!

indeed!

yes - it's truly something!

I wasn't - pretty neat - thank you!

oh, this is great! Very Saul Steinberg and its own thing - thank you!

Yes! Quite familiar with Mr. Invincible (As it is translated here) - it is so good! Was teaching pages from it long before we finally got it in English. His creativity is relentless!

these are great! I know the Gauld one well, others are new to me - thanks!

Hello—Is a River Alive? is published in paperback in the UK today.
It’s dedicated to the rivers & their guardians.
Thanks to all who’ve supported its journey into the world: read it, talked about it, got in touch.
It’s @waterstones.bsky.social book of the month.
“Hope is the thing with rivers…”

Amazing! (It’s out of my hands - and I don’t even have hands)

On View: Seeing Red Feeling Blue

Indeed. You might appreciate my 2008 comic on the silliness of red/blue divisions spinweaveandcut.com/on-view-seei...

A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.

a three panel comic about Søren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"

It's that time in my Making comics intro course when I talk image-text relations, which gives me an excuse to share 2 favorite comics that do bewildering things that can only be done in comics! Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal Le Verbe Prophétique alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social. So good!

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“

A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

Hear hear!

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat