Whatever You Call This Pngs (pt 1)

Brain's gonna have to crawl down that damn balcony himself at this point.

Idk if I talked about this here, but for the past 3 years I've been quietly developing a particular kind of comics taxonomy: identifying, naming and describing the visual-literary devices used in comics. Most of them are devices appropriated and adapted from other mediums, like poetry, rhetoric, cinema, etc - but quite a few are unique to comics. My intent is to give language not just for comics creators when they need to articulate their authorial choices, but for critics, scholars and teachers to talk about comics as a visual-literary art form.

Anyway, the research has gotten to the point where it's ready for the public. My plan is for this resource to be delivered in the form of a Wikipedia, online database, basically an accessible website that contains all the information related to the devices, including working examples from other graphic novels, webcomics, etc. It's STILL not ready yet - Idk when it's gonna debut, but I've recently secured an opportunity that will make progress move faster.

This zine right here is both soft-launch promo + a fancy business card for the Comics Devices guide. It's meant to pitch my research and act as a quick reference type of thing for folks. I'm only able to sell this in person in Australia, but folks in the US might get an edition soon (related to aforementioned opportunity).

But yeah. Big comics stuff happening.

RB to see how others think-- also, what territory you're from and version of English you speak! (this is to settle a thing I am pondering)

hey girly, calling to let you know the fandom got a hold of your boyfriend. Yeah they love him. Yeah they’re making AUs of him. Yes, one of those is a LoveSick AU. Yup, his pallete is now red and pink with a bunch of hearts on his clothes. He’s in love with you, obsessed with you now even. Enjoy having a cuddly lovestruck version of him byeeee.

Queuing this for January too.

Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, it is up to I, the only fucking cishet on tumblr, to drag this out to a wider audience.

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the splatfest graphics from 3, but when you give me the option of these silly lil inkling icons versus these fully rendered artistic icons, which one is, ironically, more iconic and effective at what they do?

but also when it came down to wanting to do a silly little edit I’d much rather just try and copy the lil simple, south Park lookin ah, squid people icons then the over the top colored and rendered-looking icons that would’ve taken way too much time for nothing (also I had already hurt my hand from rendering something prior to drawing this so I was not gonna make the pain worse)

Man, too bad we never got this deleted splatfest theme before final fest

I’d probably choose team divine, and I’m not even a big shiver fan!

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