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@maxkriegers
"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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🗨️ 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/
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Maggie 🔜 visting SFO 🇺🇸
@Mappletons
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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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Maggie 🔜 visting SFO 🇺🇸
@Mappletons
Very true! Lots of creative, boundary-pushing work going on within the world of comics I just find that when I'm talking to people outside comics-world, they see all sequential-visual mediums as "comics", and unquestionably assume their lack of drawing ability bars them from it
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Eli Parra 🌊🌊🌊
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Yes on how hard it is to escape the presumptions of a culture! It took me many years to realize a visual-spatial essay didn't need an avatar cartoon of the narrator or protagonist, that you could travel the land of mathmagic & nonfiction without Donald!
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Logic & arithmetic merge in logic gates & binary numbers. This experimental comic visualizes from bits to adders, without encapsulating symbols. See parts in mind-numbing detail while perceiving the whole: @scottmccloud's closure, @Nsousanis's sequential & simultaneous duality.
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