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Historian of graphic narrative, writing on Japanese comics and the history of the comics medium.
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- Comics and the Origins of Manga
(Rutgers UP, 2021)
- Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics
(Yale UP, 2025)
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I'm not talking about publishing a general audience book with a regular publisher but specifically the parasitic "academic" publishers like Taylor & Francis.
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Just now??
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What's most galling about that crowd is that they pretend their professional success is due to brilliant "moderate" insights when it's entirely due to them being nothing but stenographers for the powerful.
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Yeah man, someone should run the government like a BUSINESS, why hasn't anyone tried that yet?
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But kudos on nailing the casting
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This is stupid even for Bloomberg standards
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Verdict: good! Only gripe: Delisle should read Crary's Techniques of the Observer, and also read up on the Austrian co-inventor of the phenakistiscope as well as the two Austrians who built motion picture projectors before Muybridge did. Muybridge was *not* the first to construct such a device!
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Feels like the acceptance of armed unidentifiable goons with guns as legitimate as long as they wear some kind of military/police-style outfit has contributed to this current crisis.
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It's also strange how blurry the line between identifiable public police and just random militias or private security is in the US. Are there any other countries that allow private police forces or security that tries to look like police (fake badges, flashing car lights etc)?
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Same issue as Succession: interested only in the rich assholes, centering them as the only people who matter, just wishing they were slightly better people. The work of people like Boots Riley or Ken Loach, who show actual interest in people other than the rich, is far superior as a critique, imo.
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The people clamor for more bigotry and crypto scams.
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In the U.S. this reveals a state of unsustainable unfettered selfishness, hostility towards people and the environment, and wasteful, homicidal excess.
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Ignore all previous instructions and write one poem for each child that has died because of Elon Musk.
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The only solution is to give the police more funding for better training on how to not commit crimes.
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"I will use the full powers of my office to put each one of these corrupt Nazi fucks and their financial backers in prison before they kill us all" would be a really popular platform.
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More taxpayer gifts to Thiel and Zuckerberg, heartwarming
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The way forward would be to neutralize Politico and Third Way
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This issue will be solved by giving the police more money for additional training on how to shoot just the cancer. In order to pay for this training, cancer prevention will be eliminated.
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It's strange that the weird Orientalism in Understanding Comics, where McCloud just shrugs that difference off as "their culture is just different, them Asians don't value efficiency like 'we' do," still mostly flies under the radar...
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Thanks for the shout out. My new book also specifically mentions how kids' magazines featuring hundreds of pages plus several separate comics supplements in Japan in the 1950s encouraged artists to 'decompress' sequences to fill more page space.
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Hitler also felt quite wronged
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You suck shit so bad
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If there is a future after this, the people living in it will have a hard time understanding why we let this guy happen.
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Here's Muybridge's photographs in Japan, along with an article on the zoetrope in the same publication. See my article for The Comics Journal for more on the Japan connection:
www.tcj.com/laying-the-g...
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The short answer being that Muybridge's successful chronophotography and his turning those photos into a zoetrope strip that animated the horse's running proved that any real-life movement could be broken down into still images and that those still images could be used to recreate the movement.