#sequential storytelling

[momopatchi]

comic assignment about a dysfuntional butch garage band "PALEOBIDO"

[lebs1an]

[terror-billie]

All The Nib magazines are free to download — PDFs — The Nib

All 15 issues of the Eisner and Ignatz award-winning magazine available for anyone to download for free. 1,600 pages of comics!

The Nib is no longer going to make new comics and they've put all their PDFs up for free, with an option to make a donation to the archive if you like.

The Nib is an online satire comic created by Matt Bors, who made the "we should improve society somewhat" comic

The comics feature a variety of authors telling their stories and making political satire.

[xjdkg89q]

Study for my uni assignment .... (this is my oc)

[fleshisfun]

made a little personal comic for my class :0) this one has a happy ending lol

[idahocomicsgroupinc]

Sensational Master: The Art of Rafael Gallur

This a very important art book that NEEDS to be published. It is Sensational Master: The Art of Rafael Gallur. Gallur is a Mexican painter that did covers for Sensacional De Luchas and many more popular Mexican comic books. This book is dangerously close to not being funded on Kickstarter so please, if you love art and think the preservation of obscure forms of the 9th art (comic books) is important, please consider funding this project. You will be glad you did.

[knittinganarchist]

finally comics have released me from the confines of traditional panelling, i am now free

[duckmeat13]

Wanted to take some time out of my day to gush over this one particular page of Chainsaw Man Chapter 137 (the most recent release as of this post) because of how genius it’s paneling and use of the comics medium is:

It’s very easy to think of comics as a combination of pictures with text bubbles/balloons/captions, but this takes it to a level I’ve rarely seen. Thought and speech bubbles are probably some of the most iconic elements of comic art beyond the single panel itself, but Fujimoto manages to COMBINE these two elements of comic design to create a sense of visual storytelling that only comics can.

To break it down, we see actions that the reader would normally assume to be reality itself, Denji’s thoughts and actions in real time. The pages prior to this one don’t imply anything other than the very real actions of the story are happening within the pages of the comic…

…despite this being the exact opposite of what is happening, as shown when we expand our view outwards to the next “panel” of sorts, or at least the next action being shown. If these were shown side by side in square panels, we’d assume that they happened one after another - Denji tries to rebut the mystery girl’s advances only to act purely on instinct in the next panel. Not very compelling for a character we’ve seen grow and change over the entirety of Chainsaw Man’s first major arc.

However, the use of the thought bubble AS A PANEL ITSELF transforms this into something that much greater. Denji has actions he’d like to do. He wants to have self-respect. He wants to be able to reject the advances of a women who clearly doesn’t have the best in mind for him (which is confirmed to an extent at the conclusion of the chapter). However, how Denji THINKS he should act is different from how he ACTUALLY ACTS. Despite seemingly knowing better, Denji goes ahead and takes the mystery girl’s bet. He knows he’s falling into old habits but for one reason or another choose not to. And THAT is what I find so genius about this single page.

Denji as a character has transformed from Chapter 1 in a very realistic way. He’s more aware of his needs as a human being and wants a better future for himself and his loved ones. However, his mind hasn’t really caught up with his body. Despite the danger it poses, he still WANTS to be Chainsaw Man. He wants to be idolized and worshiped and have women hanging off of his shoulders because he’s a goddamn superhero who eats other Devils for breakfast and looks cool as hell while doing it. As a result, his body hasn’t caught up with his mind - despite the events of Part 1 deeply changing Denji’s life from a physical and emotional perspective (now being the breadwinner of an apartment with a bunch of dogs, as well as a cat and a college-bound Nayuta), he’s still trying to do what he’s always done - kill Devils and try to live a fulfilling life.

As a result, what Denji recognizes as his wants and needs are separated from what he actually does, which this single pair of contrasting images communicates gracefully.

Denji knows he should stand up for himself more. That he shouldn’t be so easily convinced by a pretty face. But his thoughts and feelings are directly contrasted by what he actually does… and it’s not even clear why he does it! And yet, this message couldn’t be better communicated through the medium of sequential, visual art. Mic drop.

TL;DR The above page from Chainsaw Man Part 2 manages to completely explain Denji’s struggles as a character by nesting speech bubbles describing what he thinks he does within a thought bubble, that then shows what he actually does. It pulls off illustrating Denji’s contrasting character elements as well as subverting audience expectations about him in an intelligent and artistic way. Speech bubbles without speech might be the best thing since sliced bread.