Arkholt

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I draw funny pictures: https://arkholt.com | http://dribbble.com/arkholt | https://new.thebirdfeeder.com

I also write about funny pictures: https://blog.arkholt.com | https://notes.arkholt.com

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Comics of the mid-14th century! Here's a straightened-out, lighter version if you wanna check out more details... ( h/t @lizzzs.bsky.social ) I hope most now find it obvious that this is the same art form as the latest X-Men—not an easy sell when I wrote Understanding Comics in 1993.

Early European sequential art. "Thirty Bible Stories," mid-14th century, anonymous Veronese artist (Museo del Castelvecchio, Verona)

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Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes!

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Born on this day in 1883, San Francisco native Rube Goldberg made his mark creating comics of complex devices for simple tasks. In 1995, the U.S. Post Office released a stamp featuring his 1931 cartoon 'Professor Butts and the Self-Operating Napkin.'

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Today is the birthday of cartoonist, author, inventor, & engineer Rube Goldberg (July 4, 1883-Dec. 7, 1970).

The Twitch channel SaltCommittee recently commissioned me to make even more emotes for them, giving their viewers a full slate to choose from! I like these ones a lot and will enjoy using them myself. portfolio.arkholt.com/vector/salt-... #emotes #illustration #commission #originalart

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Things I've spontaneously said to animals. Mailing list: buttondown.email/rosemarymosco Patreon: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

Harvey Pekar on the potential of comics, from The Comics Journal 123, July 1988: “Comics is as good, as expressive, as versatile an artistic medium as any other, including the novel, theater, and film. You can write as well in comics as in any other form…" notes.arkholt.com/pubs/thecomi...

Harvey Pekar on the potential of comics - Notesnotes.arkholt.com Comics is as good, as expressive, as versatile an artistic medium as any other, including the novel, theater, and film. You can write as well in…

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SLUGGO’S SATURDAY

Floyd Gottfredson on portraying emotion in comic characters, from The Comics Journal 120: "...your characters... act with their whole bodies... Whatever it is he's portraying in that particular panel, he feels it from his heels up." notes.arkholt.com/pubs/thecomi...

Floyd Gottfredson on portraying emotion in comic characters - Notesnotes.arkholt.com SABA: In terms of the drawing itself, the actual-not thinking about it as part of a series, but each character or each drawing-would you say there's…

It's always great when I read some back issue of The Comics Journal from the 90s, such as a couple I just read with editorials about how awful Dave Sim was, and then go to social media and see posts about similar things, such as how awful Dave Sim still is.

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Floyd Gottfredson on visuals over words, from The Comics Journal 120: "...any time you can tell your story visually, do it... tell it in action as much as you can. Use the word to complement the drawing." notes.arkholt.com/pubs/thecomi... #comicstrips #comicstriphistory #comics #newspapercomics

Floyd Gottfredson on visuals over words - Notesnotes.arkholt.com GOTTFREDSON: Let me tell you a basic thing, which I believe in very strongly, and that's the fact that any time you can tell your story visually, do…

It feels like every time I criticize something about a game, either it's story or gameplay or mechanics or overall design, there are lots of people ready to say "Yeah, but it sold this many copies" as if how profitable it was is an objective measure of quality.

Once I gave a talk in my home country on how games are about play and how it’s important just to make something weird or personal, not something commercial, if you really love games as a medium. Why must games be mandatorily commercial at all? The mobile clicker game guys in the room walked out.

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Black-and-white warbler!

Floyd Gottfredson on how he started drawing Mickey Mouse comic strips, from The Comics Journal 120: "He said, 'Well, just take it over for two weeks until I find someone.' ... So I continued for 45 and a half years." notes.arkholt.com/pubs/thecomi...

Floyd Gottfredson on how he got the job drawing the Mickey Mouse strip - Notesnotes.arkholt.com GOTTFREDSON:...Walt [Disney] asked me what sort of work I was most interested in, and I told him comic strips. He says, "You don't want to get into…

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Happy Father’s Day from Hogan’s Alley! Here’s our tribute to cartoon fathers and father figures.

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Happy Bloomsday. (Always a good day to remember Richard Thompson)

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Sirenia - sea cows

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I'm very confused. Every library, bookstore, and comic book store that I've been to in at least the past 10 years has had a sizable manga section. I would think people who enjoy word games would also be people who like to read and go to bookstores and/or libraries.

NYT has comment sections for every Wordle and yesterday's Wordle was "MANGA"

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The Best Of Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller, October 24,1945

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My latest Guardian Books cartoon.

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hi son 📺

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New comic: How to tell a Carpenter Bee from a Bumble Bee. Thanks watchingbees.com for the help! Support me on Patreon for more content: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 5,1941

The fascinating thing about this is that most people will look at it and say it's broken, or that it's not functioning properly. Yet it's performing exactly as designed. It was designed to approximate human language, not give accurate information. Why is it being employed for that purpose?

Well I'm satisfied, put this thing in charge of firing control immediately

Good thing Son is an immovable object

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Technology should be used by humans to accomplish things humans can't do. Instead, AI is being used to replace the work humans do best. Forming connections with other humans is probably the most human thing possible. What happens when we try to replace that?

I wrote about receiving an AI-written email from a friend: mrgan.com/ai-email-fro...

How it feels to get an AI email from a friendmrgan.com Recently I received an AI-written email from a friend. I'm trying to understand why I had the reaction to it that I did.