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

This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.
January 1, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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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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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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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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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.
December 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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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
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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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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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
November 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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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)
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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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)
September 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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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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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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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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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.
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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@neilcohn.bsky.social this is fun stuff!
Well, that's one way to do it
August 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Coastline Similarity

xkcd.com/3132/
August 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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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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Predicament

xkcd.com/3130/
August 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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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...
August 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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This is quite beautiful. All hail Dmitry Lamonov
August 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Seth
July 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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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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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!
July 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM