"The words are equally important"
Todd Klein is one best letterers in comic books, with a career spanning decades. He's written a book, The Art and History of Lettering Comics, and it's online, as noted in marxchivist's post!
Todd Klein is one best letterers in comic books, with a career spanning decades. He's written a book, The Art and History of Lettering Comics, and it's online, as noted in marxchivist's post!
chavenet posted Comics were real good last year, a short list of lists for best comics of 2023
History pals!
Enjoy some newly-animated historical city photos, plus barnacles on the history of Australian public bathrooms "in case you're the sort of person that wants to see 115-year old survey sketches of toilets and urinal blocks".
Or listen to the meticulously recreated ambient sounds of 1700s Paris.
How about Marie Duval, 19th century woman cartoonist called 'one of the forgotten wonders of nineteenth-century art .. the bizarre dreamlike distortions of her comic world look like some steampunk 21st-century version of Victorian London."
Or the re-discovered ancient Chinese texts that rewrite the early history of Taoism and Confucianism.
Speaking of, what are some examples of historical events that are commonly misunderstood?
Did you catch teponaztli transcribing some diary pages from 1799-1804 New York City? "The most I've seen her write about anything was how much she hates games, which I love for its being an angry rant from 200+ years ago."
Or enjoy the brief video on the baseball fan Wild Bill Hagy, which is a time capsule of 1979 Baltimore.
Harking back to 1979, share some sense-memories in what was it like when everybody smoked?
Or looking further back - what was sugar like in 1631?
Finally, what are the best history nerds on Youtube?
Dr. Carla Hayden could be the #nextLOC: President Obama announces his intent to nominate Dr. Carla Hayden as the next Librarian of Congress
A peek into the traveling libraries of light house keepers: "When he visits a lighthouse that has a library he takes it away and replaces it"
"Obama's face has been etched out": A short video tour of the library at Guantanamo
Plus, a popular favorite from the vaults: Remember, if approached by a librarian, keep still. Do not run away.
And, recently in Ask Me: Why are comics and graphic novels catalogued as nonfiction in libraries?
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Confused? No? You will be! Rorgy tackles (and tackles, and tackles) the question, "What is Homestuck even about?"
MeFite Narrative Priorities talks about a decade working in the comics industry.
Marvel and DC aren't the primary sources of forward momentum within the comics industry. Arguably, their relevance to the working comics community as a whole is at an all-time low. I have worked in comics for years, and the only thing that Batman makes possible in my life is a pile of movies I don't watch and books that I don't read.
Another stellar don't-miss-it post from member hippybear, this time covering everything interesting about the 1990 feature film Dick Tracy.
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