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1/ Rereading

"Chatting with Glue" piece this morning. Still a classic. Wish there were way more visual-spatial essays around the web. I think we get hung up on calling them "comics." Comics are a distinct visual culture people believe requires drawing skills

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Max Krieger ∈ BOS

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· May 9, 2020

can we augment our online chats with new affordances?

what does a conversational medium that supports *thinking* look like?

Is there a pathway from the linear, one-dimensional, immutable logs we call "online conversation"? I made a comic! a9.io/glue-comic/

10:22 AM · Dec 14, 2020Twitter Web App

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2/ "Comics" come with presumptions about how they 'should' be formatted – panels, word bubbles, superhero action shots Scott McCloud made a great case for broadening the medium in 'Understanding Comics'. But still feels trapped in historical legacy and established practices

3/ I've been calling this kind of work "visual essays" instead Varying degrees of weaving spatial meaning and images into written words on the web. Not full-on comics, but better than sad single-image blog posts Whatever works to convince more people to make them works for me

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Hey Maggie, as a fan of your comics, I'd love to talk about this sometime. I'm all about this and am trying to design tools that allow for us to communicate in the visual language we see manifest in comics. Comics are the quietly ascendant art form.

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juan jose fernandez ꩜

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· Nov 22, 2020

Hot take: Drawing is not the core skill of comics making.

Beau Haan

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Dec 14, 2020

By the way Juan, your passion for illustrated storytelling is indelible! Loved working with you on

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Ah, I love that name, visual-spatial essays! A useful alternative to comics or graphic narrative for an emerging culture. Pressed for brevity, spatial is the key adjective to me, stressing the 2D weaving, a la spatial hypertext twitter.com/elzr/status/12

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Eli Parra

@elzr

· Sep 10, 2019

Napkin, a blend of @soulver, @scratch & spreadsheets with 4 kinds of cells: data, label, result & function. Made a comic about it for friends back in 2014 but never published it. Still think it's a fun, powerful idea: lists, backbars, nesting! PDF at elzr.com/else/napkin-co