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Nick Gazin:  I guess I also draw a lot of naked ladies and try to understand the nature of drawing women and how people who make art are often socially weird. Charles Schulz’s biography talked about how he would get crushes on “distant princesses.” Have you had anyone tell you they were upset that Dark Horse was representing Manara?

Diana Schutz:  Uh… no. Other than your friend who “angrily dismissed him.” Look, anyone who spends every day in a room all by himself writing and drawing Stuff That Isn’t Real is almost by definition tapped into something that the rest of us—with our mundane, workaday schedules, our grinding commutes, and our ceaseless barrage of meaningless business communications—just can’t begin to understand. Is Milo socially inept? No, he’s a fucking genius. People like him live in a different world than the rest of us.

(Robert Swanson picture via Golden Age Comic Book Stories)

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In the cartoon world trees are thought to be “brown” with “green” leaves. Which is why so many cartoons have unsubtle pure brown and green trees — and blue skies. If you actually look at any trees, very few are actually “brown”.  Again — the psychological danger of thinking of art in terms of the simple words we use to describe things.  Words are crappy artists.

— John K, 9 May 2012

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Michel Fiffe has a nice post up regarding what have been referred to as polyptychs or multi-pans, but which he calls super panels — i.e., “one larger image broken down into pieces OR one larger image with characters moving within it”: 

I’m not sure whether the reader should be made aware of such mechanisms, but some of these pages are too bombastic to ignore or be taken passively.

Thks for th tip, @loosejoints

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nowadays it’s mostly WHAM BAM THKS MA’AM but in olden days people used to talk so fucking much while fisting one another (via) View high resolution

nowadays it’s mostly WHAM BAM THKS MA’AM but in olden days people used to talk so fucking much while fisting one another

(via)

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George McManus (Bringing Up Father) & Buster Keatoon, 1928 (via Comix Reporter) View high resolution

George McManus (Bringing Up Father) & Buster Keatoon, 1928 

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Rule #1 of stupid people trying to make sense of the world: the culture you know nothing about has all the answers.                 — The Last Psychiatrist View high resolution

Rule #1 of stupid people trying to make sense of the world: the culture you know nothing about has all the answers.

                — The Last Psychiatrist

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‘Sincere’, for example, is a word we should avoid.  The real question is what makes a thing sound sincere or not.                 — C.S. Lewis, “On Criticism” (Venus #19 cover by Bill Everett, Apr 1952, via The Horrors of It All) View high resolution

‘Sincere’, for example, is a word we should avoid.  The real question is what makes a thing sound sincere or not.

                — C.S. Lewis, “On Criticism”

(Venus #19 cover by Bill Everett, Apr 1952, via The Horrors of It All)

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storyboard, lost episode of The Wonder Years View high resolution

storyboard, lost episode of The Wonder Years

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god bless us, every one “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”       — Anatole France, The Red Lily, Chapter 7 (1894) (comix strip by David King) View high resolution

god bless us, every one


“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

      — Anatole France, The Red Lily, Chapter 7 (1894)

(comix strip by David King)

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“It’s cartooning, really. It’s no longer icons, but it’s not yet realism. It all happened before people got all wrapped up in the humanistic technical details of anatomy and perspective and tricks with light and atmospherics. It’s very straightforward, but still amazing and profound. It’s still about the subject, about the story and about trying seriously to depict and grapple with what the artist feels is important in life. It’s not about technique, and not about creating collectible objects for the wealthy. Which is, to a great extent, what painting became shortly thereafter.”      — Anders Nilsen View high resolution

“It’s cartooning, really. It’s no longer icons, but it’s not yet realism. It all happened before people got all wrapped up in the humanistic technical details of anatomy and perspective and tricks with light and atmospherics. It’s very straightforward, but still amazing and profound. It’s still about the subject, about the story and about trying seriously to depict and grapple with what the artist feels is important in life. It’s not about technique, and not about creating collectible objects for the wealthy. Which is, to a great extent, what painting became shortly thereafter.”
      — Anders Nilsen

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Then there was a division in the academy — the 18th century German institution of specialised education spread across the West — and these two activities became specialised and purified disciplines. There were people who wrote and people who made pictures. That’s why art and literature are entirely separate disciplines to this day. People who made picture stories, like Edward Lear, Rodolphe Töpffer and William Blake, didn’t fit neatly into either discipline. They wanted to cross the boundaries and mix the two. These men were exceptions to the rule that illustrator and writer are two different people. As we approached 1900, the rivalry between pictures and text turned into antagonism. Serious authors said, “Paying people to illustrate our stories is like paying people to compete with our words.” I think it was Henry James who finally said he didn’t want scenes from his book to have spatial and visual form, because he couldn’t control that. And so we have a hundred years of prose novels without pictures. That’s sort of how it happened.         — Ben Katchor (picture story by Adam Meuse) View high resolution

Then there was a division in the academy — the 18th century German institution of specialised education spread across the West — and these two activities became specialised and purified disciplines. There were people who wrote and people who made pictures. That’s why art and literature are entirely separate disciplines to this day. People who made picture stories, like Edward Lear, Rodolphe Töpffer and William Blake, didn’t fit neatly into either discipline. They wanted to cross the boundaries and mix the two. These men were exceptions to the rule that illustrator and writer are two different people.

As we approached 1900, the rivalry between pictures and text turned into antagonism. Serious authors said, “Paying people to illustrate our stories is like paying people to compete with our words.” I think it was Henry James who finally said he didn’t want scenes from his book to have spatial and visual form, because he couldn’t control that. And so we have a hundred years of prose novels without pictures. That’s sort of how it happened.

        — Ben Katchor

(picture story by Adam Meuse)

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