- You know, I’m all for preventing the spread of AIDS and everything, but I’d pay good money to keep a lot of these people off Twitter.
- The New York Times‘ 100 Notable Books of 2010 looks like an interesting list. I’ve read — count ’em — one of the books on the list.
- I may have discovered a reason to use Facebook as something other than a Scrabble-delivery system: supposedly there’s a Monty Python game coming soon.
- Swede broadcasts music from his stomach. Apparently he was disappointed by the sound quality, however. [via]
- And finally, Scott McCloud on comics [via]:
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I’ve read exactly one of the books on that list, myself, although I just bought a couple more of ’em.
I’ve been reading Scott McCloud’s work on comics for the gigantor paper. His idea of closure is pretty interesting – the way you relate to comic panels in sequence. There are a ton of references to his work in the academic literature I’ve been reviewing. There seems to be some dispute about his inclusion of the Bayeux Tapestry (among other things) as comics – the argument is that images alone are not comics; images need words to be comics, or so it goes.
I keep meaning to read his work. Understanding Comics has been on my to-read list for several years.