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Maggie ๐Ÿ”œ visting SFO ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
@Mappletons
1/ Rereading
@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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@maxkriegers
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๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ can we augment our online chats with new affordances? ๐Ÿง  what does a conversational medium that supports *thinking* look like? ๐Ÿ”€ 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 ๐Ÿ”œ visting SFO ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
@Mappletons
2/ "Comics" come with presumptions about how they 'should' be formatted โ€“ 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
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Maggie ๐Ÿ”œ visting SFO ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
@Mappletons
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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Joรฃo Cristรณvรฃo
@jmcristovao
Well... I definitely think some form of graphics skill is needed, which not all people have - some are much more comfortable just writing. Having said that, I fully agree this form of expression needs more love - and more practitioners....
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