Comic Theory

Explained by Scott McCloud:


For a basic painting class we were required to read his book "Understanding Comics." It seemed unrelated at first, but it is a fantastic book, even if you don't THINK you like comics.

PEUR[s] DU NOIR

I can't wait to get my paws on this one:



I have to wait until February though. Boo. One of the animators is Charles Burns, who wrote Black Hole. Sex, drugs, and awesome black and white imagery.

I was looking at a hole… a black hole and as I looked, the hole opened up… and I could feel myself falling forward, tumbling down into nothingness. For a while I was just floating… I was in this totally black place. It was kind of spacey but it felt nice… nice and safe.





And of course I can't wait for this:



I hope this little ownership war between fox and warner bros ends well.

Mindscape

Awesome new documentary: The Mindscape of Alan Moore, about his development as an artist and becoming a "magician."



If you don't like Alan Moore I don't want to be your friend. While your at it make sure you have read From Hell, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, and Lost Girls.

I don't think your life is meaningless...

"I don't think your life is meaningless."

"You don't?"

"No."


"But...listen, you've just been saying life is meaningless so how can..?"

"I changed my mind."

"But...Why?"

"Thermodynamic miracles...events with odds against so astronomically they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing."

"And yet in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeeting; siring this precise son, that exact daughter..."

"...until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children copeting for fertilization, it was you, only you that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold...that is the crowning unlikelihood. The Thermodynamic miracle."

"But...if me, my birth, if thats a thermodynamic miracle...I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world!"

"Yes. Anybody in the world."

"...But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget...I forget."

"We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away."

"Come...dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly."

"Dry your eyes...and let's go home."

(From Watchmen: Alan Moore)