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cartoon hermeneutics
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theoretical cartoonist
comics as technology of consciousness
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A classic theme
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
From New Engineering by Yuichi Yokoyama. All his comics have a similar breathless speed and energy.
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
In the end, the finished structure is indistinguishable from nature. An important detail: the architecture brings joy to the observer.
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
An army of architects, engineers, construction workers, and artists put finishing touches on the project. All details are carefully rendered at all levels. Ein Gesamtkunstwerk.
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Another round of bombardment drops trees. Imagine the scale.
Out of nowhere, massive rolls of turf are unrolled among the trees.
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This sequence is an excellent reminder that architecture is fundamentally a high-speed and high-energy geological process.
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
From somewhere, a gigantic tube pours thick liquid on the entire assemblage. Concrete? Glue? Who knows.
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is all from New Engineering by Yuichi Yokoyama. It begins with intense megalithic bombardment… an enormous mountain of rock is formed.
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Lost cities—an appreciation of architecture in comic book art. A little different this week: Architecture as action!!! 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Since it's waterfall day, here's one: an unused outtake from Yuichi Yokoyama's Garden.
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Great example of the "unified architectonic" technique!
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My second Conan.
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Savage Sunday. Post a barbarian, brute, heathen, primitive, wild, uncivilized, vandal, ruffian, beast, or hooligan. My first Conan.
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Eddy Current is a black-and-white gem from the mid-'80s era I call "The Event." Comics don't look like this anymore.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I love the top panel here… It's a simple technique used masterfully to render the malevolent energy that suffuses the city. And the panels below use architectural elements as framing/paneling devices.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I love the luminous cityscapes and buildings… light pours out of them, creating stark contrasts. McKeever has a knack for making light appear sinister and deadly. If we enter these buildings, we might be burned alive.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
In larger tableaus, McKeever renders human characters as pointy abstract shapes… makes me think of the cities being inhabited by little Giacometti sculptures.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
These scenes are from Ted McKeever's Eddy Current series. I love the precision with which McKeever renders his architecture. It often veers into abstraction, but it's always well observed and has a material reality.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Lost cities—an appreciation of architecture in comic book art. The liminal, grimy, luminous, and inky urban scapes of Chad City. 🧵
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"We should remember […] that reading, having developed from hallucinating from idols and then from pictographs, had become during later bicameral times a matter of hearing the cuneiform."
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
From Cartoon Dialectics No. 2. Only six copies left!
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November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
that happened
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Savage Sunday. Post a barbarian, brute, heathen, primitive, wild, uncivilized, vandal, ruffian, beast, or hooligan. This week. The awesome and ridiculous Skully from Roachmill No. 4 by Hedden & McWeeney.
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The eyes are the window to the soul.
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Whole cities go up in a few months!
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM