eikeexner.com
Historian of graphic narrative, writing on Japanese comics and the history of the comics medium.
eikeexner.com/books
- Comics and the Origins of Manga
(Rutgers UP, 2021)
- Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics
(Yale UP, 2025)
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All this out-of-context map does is show that someone doesn't understand the German voting system, in which district-based elections are a secondary factor.
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#NATCPAC
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Most of them. It's death of author plus 70 years, 50 prior to 1971, so if the creator(s) died before then, it's in the public domain (ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%91%...). It's a bit weird because it means Tezuka's works and Tagawa's will become public domain the same year.
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I just want to share pictures of old comics without supporting an evil company run by a dumbass douchebag, is that really too much to ask?
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What's wrong with "loser"
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Please consider simplifying the Defector sign in process. It's not great to have to click a link in an email, only to be sent to the landing page and then have to manually search for the article you came to read.
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less kissin', more whoopin'
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That noxious windbag contributes nothing positive to the world; can't we all just block and ignore him and his ilk?
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Pro-car propaganda is so stupid. I can count on my hands the number of times I’ve encountered something “scary” or truly unpleasant on the subway. Driving is quite literally a daily gamble with death
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"states' rights" was never anything but a dog whistle, same as "law and order"
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“You can build all the dick rockets you want to go to Mars while you try to leave the rest of us on the burning Earth. We’re gonna take control. This is our world, and it’s our government, and it’s our money.”
— Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants president
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It's more Old Twitter than Facebook. For more discussion we should start a closed forum, I think.
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I've read the original version and had heard about the revised one, but thank you for reminding me!
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Izzy Dovere about to write an Atlantic article about how congestion pricing is a radical leftist plot
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There's indeed something wrong with Substack
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Is Wired at least getting paid for this stuff? I hope you're not doing advertising for these terrible people for free.
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Interesting that it features Chiba's blurb and name so prominently. I assume it's because Kawasaki was a bit of a one-hit wonder and has been mostly forgotten today, while Chiba is still well-known.
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Yes, but they explicitly leave him unscathed even though he's murdered people, no? I vaguely remember there being a line along the lines of "we're better than you, so we won't hurt you" or something to that effect
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EDIT: "It usually illustrates" should be "It *usefully* illustrates"
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The rightmost image is from April 1926 and is explicitly labeled "to himself," meaning that it was indisputably intended to be understood as inaudible. I still need to check how far back thought balloons go in Our Boarding House, but this may be the origin of the cloud-bubble thought balloon. (4/4)
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The middle image is from March 1926 and clearly uses a similar outline, suggesting that Crane intended this text to represent *inaudible* thought, as opposed to Tubbs muttering it (quietly) out loud. (3/4)
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The leftmost image is from late 1925 and shows an image thought balloon, which had already existed for quite some time. It usually illustrates the slightly different shape used by Roy Crane for thought balloons versus speech balloons. (2/4)
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Except that in Glass Onion the solution is to Go High
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Weird to see an ostensible news agency describe illegal impoundment as "cost-cutting"
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Is this an ad? Doesn't sponsored content have to be disclosed?
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"construction begins on US funded concentration camp in the Panamanian jungle, far away from prying eyes" is so ghoulish and it's just another news story that will get lost in the chaos
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These cops would lose their shit if a DMV employee told them to grovel a bit or else they won't get their license renewed.
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I would like one of these "whether we help you or not is entirely up to our discretion; if you're subservient enough, we may consider it" cops to explain why exactly they deserve to live comfortably off our taxes if that money comes without any obligations.
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That assumes that rich people don't get rich precisely because they're bad people.
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There were two strong Democratic primary campaigns in 2016 and 2020 that did that and most of the Democratic party apparatus and media united to crush them.
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Are there any minimum intellectual standards for law professors or is it like economics