5/21/2023 0 Comments Making comics by scott mccloud![]() ![]() Making Comics is the third book by comics artist McCloud and arguably his most practice-oriented one. We can read McCloud’s text as a rhetoric of comics in that it not only offers readers practical and theoretical advice for producing aesthetically effective and engaging comics of their own, it also demonstrates its own argument in a sophisticated yet visually appealing manner. It is within this context that we can read Scott McCloud’s book Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels. For the most part, such efforts tend to focus more on the analysis and critique of preexisting visual texts and less on how students themselves might produce such texts. Books in this vein expand our critical perspective of what counts as a worthwhile cultural artifact, moving beyond the confines of high art and into the sometimes maligned world of advertisements, graffiti, and even (perish the thought) comics. ![]() Review of Scott McCloud, Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (Harper Paperbacks, 2006)īen McCorkle, Ohio State University at MarionĬompositionists have long held an interest in visual culture, as textbooks such as Seeing & Writing, Convergences, and Rhetorical Visions demonstrate, not to mention recent scholarly books such as Carolyn Handa’s Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World or Kristie Fleckenstein’s Vision, Rhetoric, and Social Action in the Composition Classroom. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Bloom book kevin panetta![]() ![]() Author’s and illustrator’s agent: Charlie Olsen, Inkwell Management. ![]() While some of the supporting characters are thinly developed, a pleasantly diverse cast and realistically varied relationship dynamics from Panetta ( Zodiac Starforce) offer a thoughtful look at how one grows into and out of relationships, with all the commensurate joy, awkwardness, and reconciliation that family and friends offer. About the Author Kevin Panetta is a comic book writer. Kevin came to writing after years dedicated to. Illustrator Ganucheau’s black, white, and blue art is drawn in a simple, naturalistic style with manga-adjacent expressions that suit the story. Writer Kevin Panetta and artist Savanna Ganucheau concoct a delicious recipe of intricately illustrated baking scenes and blushing young love, where the choices we make can have terrible consequences, but the people who love us can help us grow. He has worked on books for properties like Steven Universe, Regular Show, Bravest Warriors, and WWE. A wedding montage, close-ups of family cookbooks and a beloved sourdough starter, along with scenes of people cooking alone, together, and for each other, combine into a loving meditation on the central role of food in relationships. The two bond over baking throughout the summer and even fall for each other, until an accident costs the family its bakery. His father needs help at their struggling family bakery, however, so Ari must find a replacement before he goes-enter Hector, who is taking time off after his first year of culinary school. ![]() Ari is excited to move to the city with his bandmates after high school, leaving his small East Coast beach town behind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. David’s victory was improbable and miraculous. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. ![]() Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell’s dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A group of drunk black guys in a truck killed his high school sweetheart, so he has hated black people ever since.Īnyway, Romiette and Julio is definitely more plot-driven than character-driven with too much telling and not enough showing. Yes, he realizes how trifling that simile is, but why even put it in there? I have never read she was pale like mayonnaise in a story. ![]() Nitpick: Why the heck is brown-golden skin and fried chicken in the same sentence when Julio is describing Romiette. I'm not saying there aren't light-hearted, juvenile sixteen-year-olds, but are African kings and presidents really out here visiting her mom's pan-African boutique? This was before Facebook was even popular, so how in the world would they know about the store? Also, why was Ben so gracious and friendly after Julio gave him a bloody nose? Like it would've been better if they started on the wrong foot but learned they were wrong about each other. Romiette seems really young in her first journal entry. "It's hard to know what to be afraid of when you don't even know what the threat is."Okay, you need to have some suspension of disbelief when reading this story. To be honest, I had low expectations, but I thought the romance might be cute. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The house of mirth review![]() ![]() In fact, they are more ‘extended’ than ‘deleted’. The deleted scenes are available with or without commentary. The ‘On Location’ extra is just a reel of spare video that someone managed to take on set – those of you familiar with FilmFour discs will know that this is not a particularly useful extra as it is mostly without sound, but is at least here for completion’s sake. Sadly it’s only 7 minutes long, but at least it’s not a Hollywood fluff piece. Also on the disc is a short featurette that tells us a little more about the making of the movie. This is a great bonus for the visually impaired, but I found that it was also great to listen to whilst watching, and plays very much like a book read aloud. Basically it’s the dialogue, but with a narrator describing the on-screen action. ![]() This is the first time I’ve seen this kind of extra. ![]() Another audio track – ‘audio description’ – is available. But even though he leaves long silences in his commentary, as a whole this is one of the better ones I have listened to. This commentary is informative, although Davies only seems to be prompted by a start of a scene, and so is a bit quiet. ![]() He is very enthusiastic about his film, and often goes into detail about the shooting, the editing and other such anecdotes. First up is the director’s commentary by Terence Davies. Features FilmFour/VCI have including a superb range of extras to go with the movie. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments My Aunt Came Back by Pat Cummings![]() ![]() Now it is research for different books that leads her to African marketplaces, castles in Spain, or unexplored comers of New York City. ![]() My sisters and brother and I were always the new kids on the block." She appreciates having been exposed to different places and lifestyles and still likes to travel and team about other cultures. We never lived anywhere for more than three years at a time. ![]() "My father was in the army," Pat recalls, "and, as a result, we were constantly traveling. Repeatedly changing Artie's name (to avoid legal action) has made it possible for her to sneak several books about him into print. ![]() Ten years later, she began writing them as well when she realized that exposing her younger brother's childhood exploits was an ideal means of revenge. She has been illustrating children's books ever since her graduation from Pratt Institute in the mid-seventies. "In addition to the Coretta Scott King and the Boston Globe-Horn Book awards, Pat Cummings is the recipient of nine t-shirts, thirteen mugs, 315 ballerina drawings, and one embroidered pillow from readers. An instructor of children's book illustration at the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan, she lives with her husband and a big cat named Cash in Brooklyn, NY. She is also the author/illustrator of the Harper Growing Tree book, My Aunt Came Back and Angel Baby. Pat Cummings is the illustrator of the Coretta Scott King Award winner My Mama Needs Me, written by Mildred Pitts Walter. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Cara hunter in the dark![]() ![]() ![]() When he realizes the missing woman's house is directly adjacent to the house in this case, he thinks he might have found the connection that could bring justice for both women. And no one is as innocent as they seem.Īs the police grow desperate for a lead, Fawley stumbles across a breakthrough, a link to a case he worked years before about another young woman and child gone missing, never solved. The inhabitants of the quiet street are in shock - how could this happen right under their noses? But Detective Inspector Adam Fawley knows nothing is impossible. ![]() From internationally bestselling author Cara Hunter, a riveting suspense novel about the shocking secrets revealed when a woman is discovered held captive behind a basement wall - and no one is who they appear to be.ĭo you know what they're hiding in the house next door?Ī woman and child are found locked in a basement, barely alive, and unidentifiable: the woman can't speak, there are no missing persons reports that match their profile, and the confused, elderly man who owns the house claims he has never seen them before. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘I read somewhere,’ Sam once said, ‘that I have been cited as the greatest serial killer in fictional history, having destroyed civilisation in so many different ways – through famine, freezing, earthquakes, feral youth combined with religious fanaticism, and progeria.’ He is perhaps best known as John Christopher, author of the seminal work of speculative fiction, The Death of Grass (today available as a Penguin Classic), and a stream of novels in the genre he pioneered, young adult dystopian fiction, beginning with The Tripods Trilogy. Over the following decades, his imagination flowed from science-fiction into general novels, cricket novels, medical novels, gothic romances, detective thrillers, light comedies … In all he published fifty-six novels and a myriad of short stories, under his own name as well as eight different pen-names. Samuel Youd was born in Huyton, Lancashire in April 1922, during an unseasonable snowstorm.Īs a boy, he was devoted to the newly emergent genre of science-fiction: ‘In the early thirties,’ he later wrote, ‘we knew just enough about the solar system for its possibilities to be a magnet to the imagination.’ ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Bloodlines by lindsay anne kendal![]() ![]() I have a blog site and website where you can find out more information. Now, I have a professional DSLR camera and I'm looking to do photography as well as my graphics as a sideline project. I have literally thousands of photographs which I have taken over the years. ![]() ![]() I have had a love of photography from being a child. My favourite story of all time is Bram Stoker's, Dracula. Scary films are a true love of mine, although I find it very hard to find one these days that actually frightens me. I will also be creating the covers for Empire Voices audiobooks. I have created covers for my own novels, self published authors, World Castle Publications and Sizzler Editions. I love anything spooky, supernatural, or unexplainable, and so that’s the genre I want to write in for the rest of my life. My stories play like movies in my mind, then I go and write them down. I’ll sit listening to it and suddenly I’m no longer in the room. I never knew what I wanted to do with my life until I began writing. I live with my parents, my younger sister, Cheryl, and her little girl, Faith. I have lived in Droylsden, Manchester, all my life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Employing hilariously biting alternating perspectives and a cast populated by strongly characterized female heroines and deliciously despicable reality TV villains, Gonzales ( If This Gets Out) expertly taps into contemporary society’s Bachelor obsession to deliver a smart rom-com with a twist. Moreover, Maya is developing romantic feelings for her-and Skye feels the same. Never Ever Getting Back Together Hardcover Novemby Sophie Gonzales (Author) 348 ratings Editors' pick Best Young Adult See all formats and editions Kindle 10.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 12.90 31 Used from 6.67 28 New from 10. ![]() ![]() As the competition unfolds, however, she’s surprised to find herself connecting with Skye, the girl with whom Jordy cheated on Maya. Upon being whisked away to fictional European country Chalonne, Maya’s scheme gets off to a rocky start after she alienates the other contestants with her I’m-not-here-to-make-friends attitude. ![]() She plans to publicly humiliate Jordy by dumping him on international TV-but she has to win first. When Maya is invited to be a contestant on Second Chance Romance, a reality dating show that pits celebrity bachelors’ ex-girlfriends against each other for a chance to win their ex’s heart, Maya sees it as the perfect opportunity for revenge. Two years after Maya dumped her cheating ex-boyfriend Jordy, he’s suddenly being touted across the news as Europe’s most eligible bachelor, following his sister’s marriage to a minor European royal. ![]() |