Matt, Author at Drawing Words Writing Pictures

The thrill of reading Andrei Molotiu’s abstract comics is in watching images and rhythms and hints of narrative coalesce and then dissolve as you read. And each time you re-read them you get a different experience.

Weekly Twitter round-up for 2011-03-18

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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education.

Guest post: Paulo Patrício on character design

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Comics are a character-driven medium, so if a character looks and acts exactly the same as all the others—superheroes wearing spandex, alternative types exuding negativity—then something is gravely wrong. Wrong and boring. As someone else put it: “we need to do violence to the cliché, create havoc with the tried, the tired and tested”.

Notables 2010: Ellen Lindner’s Shams, Scams and Blind Faith

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The attention to detail as well as the balance between image, narration, and dialogue make Ellen Lindner’s history of Western civilization’s relationship with eyewear an exemplary non-fiction comic.

Weekly Twitter round-up for 2011-03-11

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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education.

Weekly Twitter round-up for 2011-03-04

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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education. Featuring a series of tweets with links to literary journals that publish comics.

Notables 2010: John Hankiewicz’s The Offering

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John Hankiewicz creates formally elegant and enigmatic comics that are truly sui generis. Everyday people and objects combine and recombine in choreographic patterns that suggest but elude meaning.

Weekly Twitter round-up for 2011-02-25

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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education.

Notables 2010: Theo Ellsworth’s Capacity

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Theo Ellsworth’s Capacity is an idiosyncratic masterpiece, a creative coming-of-age story which narrates the story of its own creation along with its creator’s struggles to learn how to channel his to his dreamworld and fantasy life onto the page.