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A blush-inducing review of August in Pasikuda by Daniel Elkin:

Another addition to InkBrick 4 that maximizes the possibilities of comics poetry is “August in Pasikuda” by Isuri Merenchi Hewage and Deshan Tennekoon. In this piece, panels are overlaid on intricately detailed watercolor and ink backgrounds (abstracted and awash in color) giving the illusion of sequence, of story. Sporadically placed, the words inhabit corners, giving breath and life to their meaning. On its own, the art performs one story, the words another. Together, though, they create something beautiful, they create comics poetry.

http://www.danielelkin.com/2015/12/books-in-bites-9-two-comics-worth-your.html

Many thanks, @danielelkin

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Welcome to part the second of Comics Bulletin's coverage of Comic Arts Brooklyn 2014. To find out how our two provincials, Daniel Elkin and Keith Silva, got to this point in their story there's this. If you're immune to the crushing weight of continuity or if you're slumming and fancy yourself a bit of a [...]

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(Torpid Mass Hysteria): a review of Roman Muradov's (In a Sense) Lost and Found4.5Overall ScoreReader Rating: (0 Votes)John Keats begins his 1818 poem Endymion with the line, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." The Jazz Butcher took up this theme again in their song "Forever" from their 1986 EP Conspiracy. I bring this [...]

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Messy Confusion (In a Good Way): Josh Bayer's Mr. Incompleto4.5Overall ScoreReader Rating: (0 Votes)Josh Bayer's comics are a mess - an intricate, muddied, thought-provoking, glorious mess - and I, for one, am on board with almost everything he does. Bayer debuted his latest book, Mr. Incompleto, at Comic Arts Brooklyn this year and, like Theth before [...]

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Sometimes the most universal truths can be found in the smallest slices of life. That’s what makes independent documentaries so powerful, engaging, and entertaining. Not only do they show you little worlds to which you’ve never had access, but they oftentimes also tell the larger story of what it means to be human.

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Eel MansionsOverall ScoreReader Rating: (0 Votes)"And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New [...]

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Unfortunately, When Jews Were Funny barely scrapes this question. In its unfocused spill, it misses so much of what could have made it great.

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This looks good! I will even ignore my hatred of tumblr as long as you keep posting things like this!

Alright! Thanks (: