I just read Hail Mary by zaganthi and perryvic (ca. 13,450 words), a futurefic with some really cool ideas about Atlantis and Ancient tech. It is McKay/Sheppard slash, but really mostly about John/Atlantis.
I found it through the newsletter. I mean, in the linked entry was a link to the website, but since it's a longish story that's not unusual, and many people like to do that so comments can be posted in the LJ, no? What was your problem?
i read it a few days ago and mailed dora about how to link it and then forgot about it...i guess she took care of it (being far more conscientious than myself :)
lovelovelove your sheppard icon!!! (then again, i don't think there's a single icon you have i doin't adore :-)
oh, and you know my difficulty reading comics, right? well, i'll be teaching mauds shortly, and i got myself McCloud's book Understanding Comics--not realizing it *is* a comic!!! *headdesk* [it's probably the only book i'll ever get out of the uni library that my 8 year old's reading :-)
How could you not have known that Understanding Comics is a comic? *boggles* I mean, he could never talk about comics like that if it was a mere text book.
I'd never heard of the guy until a few week ago...is Eisdner's book a comic too????? Are all his academic studies comics??? (This is literally a brave new worlds for me!!!)
Huh. I'm surprised you never heard of him, what with his colums and advocating webcomics and all kinds of net media stuff for years now. Eisner wrote at least two books about graphic story telling and neither is a complete comic, but there are many illustrations, examples and comic elements since both are more or less practical guides for teaching graphic story telling, and if you don't read or like or understand the graphic parts you won't get much out of the books. It would be pretty useless to just read the text parts or something.
Looking at my copy of "Comics & Sequential Art" it has a handful of pages without illustrations, though two of that are the foreword... otoh it has many pages that are all comic to illustrate points made in the text. I mean, I specificially like them because they were less text heavy than your usual drawing book.
Well, you had a typo i.e. "mauds" and no capitalization so I actually didn't make the connection to the comic from what you wrote earlier.
But that's funny since I know someone who did their dissertation on Maus. Unfortunately whenever the guy talked about his research at comic conventions he completely missed the target audience (which were fanboys) with all the academic speak.
Oh, and I have no idea whether McCloud also writes some kind of academic studies, I only read his two "meta comics" and a few of his regular comics. I mean, I knew him as a comic artist before Understanding Comics came out and frankly never thought of him as an academic.
i'll just leave my head on my desk...i guess they actually made a proper post sincve i saw it...the first one didn't link to a story, just talked about the site..just ignore me :D
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I found it through the newsletter. I mean, in the linked entry was a link to the website, but since it's a longish story that's not unusual, and many people like to do that so comments can be posted in the LJ, no? What was your problem?
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i read it a few days ago and mailed dora about how to link it and then forgot about it...i guess she took care of it (being far more conscientious than myself :)
lovelovelove your sheppard icon!!! (then again, i don't think there's a single icon you have i doin't adore :-)
oh, and you know my difficulty reading comics, right? well, i'll be teaching mauds shortly, and i got myself McCloud's book Understanding Comics--not realizing it *is* a comic!!! *headdesk* [it's probably the only book i'll ever get out of the uni library that my 8 year old's reading :-)
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Looking at my copy of "Comics & Sequential Art" it has a handful of pages without illustrations, though two of that are the foreword... otoh it has many pages that are all comic to illustrate points made in the text. I mean, I specificially like them because they were less text heavy than your usual drawing book.
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but now i'll be all curious and excited to learn more and probably ask you about stuff!!!
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But that's funny since I know someone who did their dissertation on Maus. Unfortunately whenever the guy talked about his research at comic conventions he completely missed the target audience (which were fanboys) with all the academic speak.
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my mind and my fingers seem to be lazy today...
yes, i can very much see that scenario!!!
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i love my flist's collective intelligence!!!!
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