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The Dim Glow

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July 14, 2008
Posted by: Mark Siegel
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[From the Drawing Board of Leland Purvis] A visual trope in comics graphics is the ‘glow, or ‘halo’. Some artists I know simply like the effect. Many aspiring comics artists seem to use it, and over-use it, simply because they never thought not to. This thoughtlessness, however, has caused a great deal of trouble and Read the Rest…

Form of Meaning

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January 21, 2008
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from the drawing board of Leland Purvis What is the relation of form to meaning? What is the shape of feeling? Any statement about the world, or a piece of it, is a mis-statement. As soon as you focus on a thing, or an idea, you take it out of its context, out of the Read the Rest…

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