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Gaurav Singh
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Designer, Usability, Marketing and Comics Enthusiast.
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neilcohn.bsky.social
An abstract and existential experience that's one of the best comics, while also incredibly hard to describe what it's about
Cover of Larry Marder's Beanworld
January 15, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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hogansalley.bsky.social
Wordless Wednesday:
January 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
Happy New Year, everyone!

This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.
Title: New year's resolution A man sits at a table with a coffee writing in a notebook: “This year i will devote myself completely to reading serious, improving literature, forsaking easy pleasures and tirelessly seeking out truth and profundity in the work of the greatest writers.” He looks at it Says: Hmm... then “Scratch Scratch Scratch scratch” scribbles out words until the text reads: “This year I will read for Fun”
January 1, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
I’m a big fan of this essay by @michaelchabon.bsky.social - I do share it when I do ms marvel in my intro class. It’s great if you’ve not seen it www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Secret Skin
An essay in unitard theory.
www.newyorker.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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suprdee2.com
As your community newspaper cartoonist, I must say that anyone who's really interested in learning all about comic strip history, I have two recommendations to share:

Book: How Comics Are Made by @glennf.com
Documentary: Stripped by Sequential Films
September 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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glennf.com
Excited that people are interested in this sort of thing. I cover it extensively—engravers, McCay/Hunt, and hidden/anonymous comics labor—in How Comics Are Made at your local bookstore! howcomicsaremade.ink

Signed copies via glog.glennf.com/hcwm-store/h...
How Comics Are Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page
howcomicsaremade.ink
December 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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gipperfish.bsky.social
This Fall, I taught a 400-level comics course at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, under our Major Authors rubric, on the comics Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. I posted a recap of each week using #comicteaching. This thread contains all of those posts, as well as a link to our syllabus.
Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, Fantastic Four #51 (1966): "I've done it!! I'm drifting into a world of limitless dimensions!! It's the crossroads of infinity--the junction to everywhere!"
December 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My illustration agent, Heart, made a lovely book to celebrate their 30th birthday. I illustrated the year 2012 with a little comic about the Curiosity Rover. See more here: www.heartagency.com/news/what-happened-hearts-30th-anniversary
A double page spread of a landscape-format book. It contains a comic strip by Tom Gauld in which the view pans from the earth, across space, and on to Mars where The Curiosity Rover appears, small and alone, looking at a paper ticket which reads 'One Way'. A double page spread of a landscape-format book. It contains a comic strip by Tom Gauld in which the view pans from the earth, across space, and on to Mars where The Curiosity Rover appears, small and alone, looking at a paper ticket which reads 'One Way'. Title page for Tom Gauld's spread in the book 'What Happened' published by Heart Agency. A double page spread of a landscape-format book. It contains a comic strip by Tom Gauld in which the view pans from the earth, across space, and on to Mars where The Curiosity Rover appears, small and alone, looking at a paper ticket which reads 'One Way'.
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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marcofinnegan.bsky.social
Listening to Chaykin on the great Tradecraft podcast and he supposes that their are 3 schools that American comic artists can be traced back to
Eisner-graceful use of page
Kurtzman-measured (emotional)detachment
Kirby/lee-impactful/dynamic
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
New smart pg to me (via @klaustoon.bsky.social) from Agent of WORLDE 4 by @denizcamp.bsky.social, Filya Bratukhin & co, I assume referencing my pg on simultaneity “make me one with everything” & also directly homaging King’s classic Gasoline Alley beach pg, which i always use to discuss simultaneity
A nine panel grid comics page, a scene on a beach with character moving through all nine panels while the rest is a single scene A nine panel grid comics page with a banyan tree and various critters in it taking up the whole scene and the Buddha seated in middle, head in center panel saying make me one with everything A nine panel grid comics page, a scene on a beach with character bumbling through all nine panels while the rest is a single scene
November 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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nicholdav.bsky.social
cool study, visual depiction of motion in 300 comics across the world by @cogirmak.bsky.social @neilcohn.bsky.social

Might be of interest to @dialhforhagai.bsky.social @soengery.bsky.social
@hannahtempler.com @kochalka.bsky.social @tomtomorrow.bsky.social etc (or not 😬, if not sry)
cogirmak.bsky.social Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, PhD @cogirmak.bsky.social · Sep 19
I was mesmerized by the idea that something static can convey not only motion but also temporality, and I decided to test it empirically. It wasn’t an easy task, as the way our data was organized didn’t make it straightforward. But now, here is our paper!
♥️ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
September 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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neilcohn.bsky.social
I’ve heard people doubt that graphics can be broken down into “minimal units” but here’s Hokusai clearly showing how to build pictures out of basic parts from over 200 years ago (from the Hokusai Manga exhibit at the Creative Museum in Tokyo)
Images from Hokusai Manga showing how to build images out of component parts
September 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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markbradley.bsky.social
And ICv2/Comichron’s excellent ongoing reports are a brilliant source of info. I’m not sure when 2025’s report is out, but here’s 2024’s:
icv2.com/articles/mar....
Comics and Graphic Novel Sales up in 2024
Via Growth in Comic Stores
icv2.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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markbradley.bsky.social
The Beat’s absolutely brilliant annual North American Bookscan sales report, whilst now sadly ended, remains the most useful free look at sales trends across GNs (note: It doesn’t include direct market or scholastic book fair sales). Here’s the last one from 2023:
www.comicsbeat.com/tilting-at-w...
Bookscan 2023: comics sales sag but Scholastic was a powerhouse
Marvel and DC had tough years in 2023, while Scholastic made up nearly 40% of book store comics sales, according to Brian Hibbs
www.comicsbeat.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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markbradley.bsky.social
Here’s a recent good read from PW about US manga sales, and the type of manga that’s been read, with some generalities on who is reading it:
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/....
Girls to the Front of Manga Readership
Girls and young women have always been a key part of the U.S. manga audience, but that audience is changing as it grows up and branches out—and publishers are eager to follow.
www.publishersweekly.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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markbradley.bsky.social
This is well worth reading this (& it’s great news!), but @thebookseller.com needs to separate out manga sales from adult graphic novel sales for its data. It does a disservice to manga, it’s not reflective of manga readership, and it’s unhelpful for knowing wider trends in comics.
johnfreeman.bsky.social John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · Sep 21
Good News! The Children’s Comic Strip Fiction and Graphic Novels category hit an all-time high of £20.2m in the UK in 2024; and sales so far in 2025 up 29.4% – an increase that suggests a final year figure of £26.1m could be possible: www.thebookseller.com/bestsellers/...
Volumes of volumes: the graphic novels wave keeps rising
The Bookseller is the incisive and independent source of news and analysis for the book trade and publishing industry. Get breaking news, in-depth features, author interviews and book charts. The Book...
www.thebookseller.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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tinyfrightening.bsky.social
@neilcohn.bsky.social this is fun stuff!
samandfuzzy.com Sam Logan @samandfuzzy.com · Aug 25
Well, that's one way to do it
A comic strip, with three rows of wide panels. A cat sorcerer sits by a river, looking at the fish. In the second wide panel, they use their magic staff to start creating a divide down the middle of the panel. In the third wave panel, the line has not divided it into, so that it is now two panels. The water from the river drains off the edge of the divide, so that the right half of the riverbed is now empty, allowing the cat to walk down and grab the fish.
August 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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xkcd.com
Coastline Similarity

xkcd.com/3132/
Comic. (1) [Teacher points to world map that highlights the edges of South America’s eastern coastline and Africa’s western coastline.] TEACHER: People had long noticed that South America and Africa had similarly-shaped coastlines. (2) TEACHER: In the 20th century, geologists finally found the explanation. (3) STUDENT: *Plagiaris*— TEACHER: Continental drift. STUDENT: Oh.
August 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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jordancollver.bsky.social
Going to finally cancel my Adobe subscription, but with it goes my "free" portfolio page. Any personal recommendations for cheap, untechnical websites good for art?
August 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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xkcd.com
Predicament

xkcd.com/3130/
4-panel comic. (1) [Person looking at bottom of single stilt that makes a TAP TAP sound on ground] (2) [ Person looking at bottom of two stilts that make TAP TAP TAP sounds (3) VOICE from off-panel, on top of stilts: Do you have your phone? PERSON: Yeah. (4) VOICE FROM STILTS: Can you Google— PERSON: —How to get down from stilts? VOICE FROM STILTS: Yes please.
August 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.
August 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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rhodri.biz
This is quite beautiful. All hail Dmitry Lamonov
August 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social
Seth
July 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
The other flipbook piece. I wish they were longer - but i realize they are the length of his sequences. I had some big little books as a kid that had flipbook sequences in the corner. Always wanted to try the same. This is inspiring…
July 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
This was an absolutely great book! An amazing story, Guy Delisle dug deeply into the challenges, triumphs & horrific moments of Muybridge’s life, I learned a ton, was captivated for all of it. My dad got it first recommended - I hadn’t heard of it. Def recommend! From @dandq.bsky.social great stuff!
Cover to muybridge Interior of muybridge Interior of muybridge Interior of muybridge
July 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM