Nick Sousanis

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

so the rules of engagement are: go apeshit and make it sick

basically the definition of every crime of war in the books

This offers some answers on this depravity bsky.app/profile/404m...

woohoo - congratulations!!

rings true... Miserable creatures.

Yeah, that’s a good summary. Seems obscene on every level

I mean, c’mon, this has no business existing…

As in, the “this must be an oversight” committee

That’s all we can do…

Not including Epstein’s best pal and most mentioned person, gives this committee’s role the other meaning of “oversight”…

The sheer possibilities on display in 99 Ways opens Ss’ minds to all the things they might try on the page. And then giving them the chance to add to it & see their classmates’ efforts, opens them further. It’s really one of the best things for teaching comics - I do a ton with constraints generally

Looks like Matt's' original comic, except instead of moving through the panels, he steps out and walks above them to the last panel...

constraint is zero gravity - so we see matt and Jessica and the house floating in zero gravity

this one is drawn in the style of Giovanni De Luca and using the now-called "de Luca effect" where multiple images of the same character appear in a single panel

this one is drawn in the style of family circus, complete with the dashed line for the movement of Matt through the comic

bonus 3/2: a couple ones from past terms... These are so good - show off things we learned in class and bring students' own experiences and ingenuity to them always!

oh yes - it really is!

an 8 panel comic where a person is looking for something in the refrigerator and can't remember what he's looking for all in Lego style drawings

an 8 panel comic where a person is looking for something in the refrigerator and can't remember what he's looking for all in screen captures from Animal Crossing

an 8 panel comic where a person is looking for something in the refrigerator and can't remember what he's looking for but where Matt Madden was drawn the student has drawn Homer Simpson instead

an 8 panel comic where a person is looking for something in the refrigerator and can't remember what he's looking for. This is Matt Madden's original template story.

2/2 more: the Lego one is impressively meticulously drawn. + Matt's original template story that sets up the book. If you're not familiar with the book, I find it's a must for teaching, explodes the possibilities for what can be done on the page. Highly highly recommend! mattmadden.com/comics/99x/

an 8 panel comic where a person is looking for something in the refrigerator and can't remember what he's looking for but all the objects, lines, etc are made of distorted versions of a drawing of Matt Madden!

an 8 panel comic where a person is looking for something in the refrigerator and can't remember what he's looking for but in addition to Matt doing the looking there's a ghost following him around and yelling at him!

an 8 panel comic where a person is looking for something in the refrigerator and can't remember what he's looking for all in the style of Megg and Mogg by Simon Hanselman

an 8 panel comic where a person is looking for something in the refrigerator and can't remember what he's looking for but the entire comics page is made with one single, continuous line

In which my intro Making course adds a new page/constraint to Matt Madden's brilliant 99 Ways to Tell a Story. This first one "ALL Matt" just blew my mind, and some really smart/inventive/skillful approaches here. We do it every term & Ss always come up w/things I've never seen before... 1/2

ah - the horror, the horror!

Ha - you nailed it! My copies of this are aging away, but glad to be reminded of it and perfect for this part of my superhero course!

I’m not totally sure what a graphic novelist is, but ‘tis me! And I’m looking forward to joining the kind folks at @geekartconfluence.bsky.social! Looks like a super cool event if you find yourself near Syracuse in April!!

Thank you! Looking forward!

Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

criminal and growing...

Awesome!! So fun!

You did such a phenomenal job on this - thank you!

He’s constantly telling us who he is

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