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kaos

ah and forgot: if you get bitpass, you'll get a donation.

*lol* all wrong

scott mccloud is the human cannonball!

i just tried to post a picture and text after it. the system accepted the picture which i tagged with the HTML 'IMG' command, but the plain text i wrote after that disappeared. would i have to tag everything (like text with 'P' and '/P' after i used HTML once?

kaos

i got it, that the photo journals are yours. that's probably why they are signed with 'KL'? :wink: yes it is true, that every kind of style has it's own limitations. and of course als a photo technique can be mixed with other techniques. as far as i know the german artist jamiri uses photos in th eb...

what a strange end. i expected this 'pig, fish, boy, turtle' tale to end with a happy ending for all sides. but... great... good laugh!

kaos

sometimes when i read posts the forum does not realize i did and still shows them as unread, even though the page was fully loaded. just right now the forum did something new though. it showed one of my own posts as unread.

kaos

We're deep in Gollum territory now. (Jackson's Gollum, specifically.) Do you think the next panel will be "Leave now and never come back"? :) in this picture even the picture itself reminds of gollum as he is sometimes sitting around in LOTR <IMG SRC="http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/mi/mi-25/zz-...

...because comics as we know them are so very new. You mean "webcomics" here, surely? for webcomics this obviously does apply. but i think it also applies in some ways to comics. of course comics are not new in a simple matter of counting years. but if you have a look on how many people developed t...

you know, you get used to it, HIM being here. but actually, even though every one acts very casual about it, most people are very excited if HE ever replies to their messages or even cites them in his blog. and i confess, i belong to most people.

kaos

Yeah, you're getting at the fundamental tension between popular success and artistic excellence. The wish for posterity, to be remembered for a truly great work, is a survival urge. It's the hope for immortality through your work. And I'd argue that it drove many writers and artists who created our...

i think you archieve an interesting effect by linking three stories to each other. on this way you actually expand scotts gutter. between the tree stories there is something like a space between panels (6th (? -last) category as described in UC). in that way the reader artifically links the stories ...

thanks for sending me the stuff by email. let me comment first on my understanding of comics as art. one of the problems of the recognition of comics in a wider public is, that comics are not understood as art. people believe comics are for children and that is it. in germany there was an interestin...

thanks for all the replies. i'll have a look as soon as i am in a country where you can conveniatly order books without getting problems with censoring (i.e. pages being ripped out for nudity or displaing a god like figure)

kaos

The comic "Cerebus" uses (used?) foreign accents recognizable as German, Southern American, and so on, although the setting is a fantasy world with fictional nations. It gives the whole thing a cleverly realistic effect. just did a quick web search. i have seen the characters af Cerebus before, but...

hey chris, can you post your comics on a different server? from his website and the google search results i can not really understand what your post means and you comics i can't access (you know why, i don't want to start the whole discussion all over again.). kaos or are you talking about these: ht...

Anonymous wrote:I really like what Bryan Singer has done with X-Men...that would have been a very easy property to mess up.

which was basically proven with he second part, which in my opinion sucks.

kaos

i don't think life has no limitations. have you ever seen a walrus turning up at an office or a kitten throwing a rock? life has only no limitation in the way that it is basically unlimited in length. but if you think of books like musils 'The Man Without Qualities', which was never finished, becaus...

In prose, you can say, for instance, "'Unhand my beer!' he declared in a thick Scottish brogue." In comics, you only have dialogue and pictures. So you have to use defaced English to express a dialect. The beauty is in the limitations. i agree with this. of course using dialect for speech bubbles d...

Yoahway? HAH! You couldn't last ten minutes without me! You think Scott has been watching Two Towers again? exactly what i thaught and eventhough i really like the two characters and the gollum link was obvious from the beginning, this citation (or adaptation) of gollums words give me some kind of ...

Veleno wrote:Hiya Xzengrim.

As for the third thing, http://masspanic.oulair.com is still working fine for me. Also still rather interested in what you will do with the actual comic.

yes right, it works now. i guess it was a teporar problem.

i'm looking forward to see the actual comic aswell.

kaos

1st the internet address includes the final point of the sentence and you have to delete it, to get a proper address

2nd i can not access the page anyway. help would be appriciated

kaos

Scott, if you're reading this, I just wanted to let you know I am really enjoying "Whose Mind is it Anyway?" -- I don't think I've seen you treat two characters so intimately and sympathetically in the Morning Improv before. I am hoping this strip goes on for a little while. Only complaint is the a...

I think it becomes pretty clear that the protagonist is imposing a system on complete randomness when he says "The number-to-suitability linkage wasn't a simple arithmetical one as I'd first thought. Adjacent integers sometimes indicated wildly different personalities and appearances." Up until tha...

i think european readers might have a certain iconic idea how lewis trondheim looks like. and i guess art spiegelman would be recognised, if painted as a mouse.

kaos