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November 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
bootayne.bsky.social
:-) !!
July 31, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Happy 2025 -- let's have some fuckin' fun
January 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
bootayne.bsky.social
First post…don’t know if hashtags work on here like that so just blind posting atm 🫡
February 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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daitsaisan.bsky.social
Dunno if anyone’s interested but I’m making a carrd site template for webcomics! So you can host your webcomics on your own carrd site!
Just finished the basics I have to make it look pretty now lol. Placeholder image featuring Achilles the kitty
Picture of a tuxedo cat on carpet with chevron buttons on the bottom as navigation.
January 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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A new translation was recently published of a seminal manga/comics studies essay in 1995 that documents and explains manga iconography with 120 examples. It's so exciting to see a precursor of what I'm doing rn with the Comics Devices Library
www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol24/...
Abstract: In the following translation of an important essay from seminal Manga Studies work How to Read Manga (Manga no yomikata, 1995), manga creator and editor Takekuma Kentarō examines the full range of manga iconography (manpu) and visual effects in this sweeping survey of over 120 concrete samples. He calls these “shape metaphors” (keiyu) and classifies them into two main branches: stand-alone icons and picture-dependent metaphorical effects. If a giant sweat mark has been drawn on the back of a character’s head, one can tell that he is in a panic just from seeing that back figure even though this image is unrealistic. This is a type of visual metaphor and the profundity of such expressions are distinct to comic books. Takekuma’s “shape metaphors” have such refined functions that express the situation or the state of mind of a character, often efficiently and even humorously. Through their use, comic book artists have been able to liberate their stories from the bare bones of plot and create additional layers of psychology and mood all through these seemingly nonsensical and excessive graphic marks. For the first time, this translation presents in English the writings of this seminal manga artist, humorist, critic, and scholar and provides an encyclopedic-like guide to some of manga’s most interesting and irrepressible visual tropes. A set of expressive lines used in manga to denote motion and feeling.
December 21, 2024 at 2:06 PM