cartoon hermeneutics
@tom-kaczynski.bsky.social
theoretical cartoonist
comics as technology of consciousness
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comics as technology of consciousness
transatlantis.net
A classic theme
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A classic theme
From New Engineering by Yuichi Yokoyama. All his comics have a similar breathless speed and energy.
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
From New Engineering by Yuichi Yokoyama. All his comics have a similar breathless speed and energy.
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
In the end, the finished structure is indistinguishable from nature. An important detail: the architecture brings joy to the observer.
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
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.
Another round of bombardment drops trees. Imagine the scale.
Out of nowhere, massive rolls of turf are unrolled among the trees.
Out of nowhere, massive rolls of turf are unrolled among the trees.
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.
Out of nowhere, massive rolls of turf are unrolled among the trees.
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
This sequence is an excellent reminder that architecture is fundamentally a high-speed and high-energy geological process.
From somewhere, a gigantic tube pours thick liquid on the entire assemblage. Concrete? Glue? Who knows.
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
From somewhere, a gigantic tube pours thick liquid on the entire assemblage. Concrete? Glue? Who knows.
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
This is all from New Engineering by Yuichi Yokoyama. It begins with intense megalithic bombardment… an enormous mountain of rock is formed.
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
Lost cities—an appreciation of architecture in comic book art. A little different this week: Architecture as action!!! 🧵
Since it's waterfall day, here's one: an unused outtake from Yuichi Yokoyama's Garden.
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Since it's waterfall day, here's one: an unused outtake from Yuichi Yokoyama's Garden.
Great example of the "unified architectonic" technique!
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Great example of the "unified architectonic" technique!
My second Conan.
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
My second Conan.
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
Savage Sunday. Post a barbarian, brute, heathen, primitive, wild, uncivilized, vandal, ruffian, beast, or hooligan. My first Conan.
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
Eddy Current is a black-and-white gem from the mid-'80s era I call "The Event." Comics don't look like this anymore.
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 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.
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
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.
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
In larger tableaus, McKeever renders human characters as pointy abstract shapes… makes me think of the cities being inhabited by little Giacometti sculptures.
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
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.
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
Lost cities—an appreciation of architecture in comic book art. The liminal, grimy, luminous, and inky urban scapes of Chad City. 🧵
"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
"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."
From Cartoon Dialectics No. 2. Only six copies left!
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November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
From Cartoon Dialectics No. 2. Only six copies left!
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that happened
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
that happened
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
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.
The eyes are the window to the soul.
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The eyes are the window to the soul.
Whole cities go up in a few months!
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Whole cities go up in a few months!