tom-kaczynski.bsky.social
theoretical cartoonist
comics as technology of consciousness
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No worries, thanks 🙏
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From an editorial in Time Warp 1. Cover by Michael Kaluta.
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bsky.app/profile/tom-...
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Differentiate the species:
Cackle of cartoonists=newspaper cartoonists
Splash of cartoonists=comic book cartoonists
Grawlix of cartoonists=graphic novel cartoonists
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Would this fix me?
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However after some sharp eyed sleuthing by @david-king.bsky.social it's probably closer to: Giffen breakdowns, Grindberg on pencils, and Danny Bulandi on inks, though there are probably more than one inker here. So Colletta and Morgan are not fully out.
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The credits on GCD are Tom Grindberg on pencils and Tom Morgan on inks.
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Oh cool. Let me know what you think.
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It's like being stranded in a different galaxy
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They're pretty fun. Especially the first 10 issues.
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12/ You can find all my Dreadstar posts here:
transatlantis.net/tag/dreadstar/
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11/ Read the full Dreadstar post:
transatlantis.net/2022/05/21/...
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10/ Anyway, I wonder if anyone ever traced a genealogy of visual representations of "ethereal spaces" from ancient memory palaces to mystical realms, psychic spaces, and cyberspace?
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9/ The closest analog is the Matrix constantly updating "code rain." Which eventually is revealed to be the primary building block of the Matrix consensual virtual reality.
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8/ Tron (1982) already visually established cyberspace along the lines of Ditko's mystical space. Tron is still 'Ditkoesque' because it creates a virtual fantastical 'real' space as a stand-in for 'cyberspace.' Dreadstar depicts a more direct relationship between code and space.
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7/ Starlin's approach is a bit different. The dense field of computer code acts less as text but as a textual/textural pattern that denotes a kind of cyber-no-place — or cyberspace.
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6/ Collage is not that unusual in comics. For example, Steranko and Kirby have used collage in comics to great effect.
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5/ Dreadstar 7 (1983), however, introduces a new wrinkle. Vanth uses a "telepathic computer interface" to locate some vital data.
Starlin uses collage to paste his drawings into a dense field of printed-out computer code.