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In defense of online comics: Like many of the revolutions that would make online comics more feasible (i.e., cheaper home computers, cheaper access to fast connectivity, realistic micropayments), the issue of reading from a monitor might be resolved in a few years. If there's a demand for it (and I ...

Yes, I just bought "Hey, Wait..." and some other comics on the list last night, and read it this morning. It's good. Jasons of the world unite.


Jason Tocci

Many of you have probably already read about this: Steven Grant noted in his "Permanent Damage" column over at CBR that Time has announced what it sees as the top ten comics of 2001. You can read his column at http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=pd&article=1189 and see the lis...

(Hope I'm not duplicating an old thread before I joined, but I thought it was a topic worth addressing...) People have a lot of different ideas about what "the future of comics" will be like. A couple of the most popular ideas are that online comics will make print comics obsolete, and that comics w...

I know just what you mean -- it's tough to motivate yourself to do an online comic when you look at how many hits you've been getting and it seems a little sad. As for me, I found it a little disheartening that just about all the readers for the web comic I started with friends happen to be acquaint...

I did like Unbreakable, but I think it would've been a lot better if it'd been a little more ... objective? Like, it was too unsubtly trying to validate comics, what with starting out by giving some figures about how many comics are sold each day. I think it would've come across as smarter, I guess,...

I realized something since the last time I was in here. Today I read a "wordless novel" in the library, a novel made of woodcut prints by Lynd Ward. It was called Wild Pilgrimage and it was really good. While reading it, I realized that my brain processed it in the exact same way it processes a comi...

On 2001-12-08 14:03, Jack Masters wrote: Can someone remind me what was wrong with McCloud's definition in the first place? 1. The definition suggested in Understanding Comics includes certain works that most people do not consider comics. (Such works include Egyptian wall paintings, the Bayeux Tap...

If we define comics in term of the subcategories of comics, how do we determine if a newly invented subcategory should fit under comics? What must it have in common with every existing subcategory? Also, I don't think you can just say that it's not what "is" comics but what "isn't" -- in part becaus...

Sandy: If that's not a comic, then you'll also have to discount certain works by Will Eisner, like certain stories or parts of stories in Minor Miracles . I think it is a comic. Or at least I think it's sequential art and image/text. Am I annoying anybody with those terms yet? :smile: Gazorenzoku: D...

On 2001-12-05 20:35, jturner wrote: But if you restrict it to things telling a <i>story</I>, certain works like er Understanding Comics might come into question... Jason Turner Yup. So is Understanding Comics a comic, or is it a book about comics told in the format utilized by comics? I think you c...

Regarding "do comics need to tell a story" -- Are those little cards with pictoral emergency instructions they give on planes comics? They don't tell a story, but they are certainly set up like comics. This sets up an important division: perhaps airplane emergency cartoons are to comic strips/books ...

One of the most interesting questions along those lines I've ever been asked is, "Do comics need to be marginalized?" Once they are no longer marginalized, are works of sequential art losing something that made them comics? Depends on how you define comics, of course. And just about everybody here w...

"Why not let it all be comics?" I shudder when I remember James Kochalka's "my sneakers are a comic" argument on the comics journal message boards... It's really really hard to come up with a definition for comics. Most people wouldn't call the stations of the cross a comic, even though they're juxt...

Yeah, what John said. In retrospect, I guess my post was more suited to a thread in which people offer different ways to consider the definition of comics, as opposed to a thread in which people come to a consensus. I read a post by Scott somewhere, where he said that if we don't define comics with ...

I'm paying too much, then. Where did you register that domain so inexpensively, if I may ask?


Jason

I am writing a 20+ page final paper for one of my graduate classes this semester which partly focuses on this. Short answer: "Comics" is a very vague and broad term that people use to encompass panel comics (like The Far Side), comic strips, comic book periodicals, online comics, graphic novels, etc...