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Comic books are about fantasy heroics and grand adventure as another self.
Isn't it funny how that works, given they are much the same medium, with one being an offshoot of the other.
Comic strips are about slices of our lives, just trying to get through it day by day, with kids and bosses and the internet that will always go down at the worst moment.
In days of old, when knights were bold, coins were hammered out in a process not unlike printing (except for doing it on metal). A blank was molded, then hammered between two dies. A technique that goes back into antiquity.
If the Circus Strong Man is an influence on Superman, then what of other circus performers?
How many of you subscribe to the services like Archie Unlimited, DC Universe or Marvel Unlimited?
Do you do several at a time?
Do you cancel one and pick up a different one?
Do you feel you can never leave your 'digital longbox'?
Inquiring minds want to know?
Robot Death over Manhattan (1944)
Be a Volunteer Observer in the Aircraft Warnings Service( est. 1941)
During the war, almost 1 million men and women watched the sky at the coastlines for bombers in 14,000 posts, in 2 hour shifts, around the clock.
We are almost at the 100 Year #Anniversary for Karel Capek's R.U.R (Rossum's Universal Robots), the story that gave the English language the word "Robot"
The robots in R.U.R are complex artificial people, with themes of exploitation of labor and 'what makes a person a person'?
Some comic books are mentally fatiguing - not from their story content, but the visuals.
I like bright palettes and white gutters
Many like dark palettes and black gutters
The wrong fit is like a phone screen too dark or too bright