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"Thanks Warren. I was hoping the images were allusive enough to provide some kind of filling in of blanks. Where’s that quote from, Ian? Is Calvino talking about comics (”rectilinear segments”)?" - Derik Badman

"Thanks, Diana. I didn’t know of all those comics recipes. I’ve only seen a few myself here and there. I got a recipe minicomic at MoCCA this year by Evan Palmer. And Matt Madden has a cocktail recipe comic in his A Fine Mess. Lucy Knisley also made a pickle recipe comic that she posted online recently." - Derik Badman

"Thanks Warren. Some of the more recent experiments in the same form are more opaque. Stay tuned." - Derik Badman

"Love the overlapping transparencies." - Derik Badman

"Thanks." - Derik Badman

"This is like an abstract comic." - Derik Badman

"I like these last two a lot. nice use of the marker... marks? strokes? Not sure what you call those." - Derik Badman

"Reminds me of this:http://madinkbeard.com/blog..." - Derik Badman

"This one came through the rss feed at a good size, and I could click through to the full-scale one." - Derik Badman

"Congratulations!" - Derik Badman

"That video is just way too long…" - Derik Badman

"Of course, this would actually involve your library going back and editing the records for all their existing comics, which requires staff time, which most libraries don't have an excess of... Happy to see the change, but skeptical of its immediate usefulness." - Derik Badman

*snort* - Laura H.

Ours doesn't provide a lot of the functionality we need, so we're not even content with ours (which is not a SirsiDynix product) - Meredith

"Whoops! Sorry." - Derik Badman

"I'd follow the titles if they had an rss feed to tell me when they update. I'm supposed to remember to go back to the site? That is so 90s." - Derik Badman

"We do two sessions with all our freshman comp courses. This semester, session one was more about evaluation, scholarly journals, while session two was about searching, boolean, databases." - Derik Badman

"So you never read as far as the "Cerebus is a hermaphrodite" storyline? There's plenty more fuel for the fire... anaylsis." - Derik Badman

"Even better, a repository of the videos as raw material (video clips, audio clips), so that different libraries could remix their own version (with their own specific logos/peculiarities… kind of like NIN releasing songs for fans to remix in Garageband." - Derik Badman

"Going to second suggestions that you try Castiafore Emerald and Tintin in Tibet. My two favorite in the series. Benoit Peeters (of Ng's post) wrote a whole book on the Castiafore Emerald." - Derik Badman

"I actually "tend" to appreciate... no rending here." - Derik Badman

"In the work of Sfar I've read, I rend to appreciate the visuals more than the story. Klezmer (available from First Second) is beautifully drawn/painted, but the story itself doesn't really do anything for me. Seems to wander without much direction." - Derik Badman

"0. Food and Drink. Best part of the conference is food and drink with new/old friends." - Derik Badman

"I'd like to see the rest too. Fever in Urbicand is the one in the series I've read a few times (the only one I have in English). I have to process all this philosophic discourse..." - Derik Badman

"Thanks, guys. I’ve been wanting to do something like this for years, so I’m glad to get some positive response. Agreed on the kombu issue. There are a few places that could have been much clearer. I was writing it as I drew it (and doing so quickly) so it was only later that confusion became noticeable (for example, where I wrote “broth” into a panel because I forgot to explain what “dashi” is)." - Derik Badman

"Hey Ken, that’s a good point about the ambiguity of the size of the asteroid. I’m going to stick with my version though." - Derik Badman

"A google search will bring up tons of results, mostly more unnecessarily colorful than I do. I don't have any of mine since they are done on the spur of the moment on a whiteboard.Yes, this was with whole classes, but no I don't look at them.Student feedback on those sessions rated mind maps very frequently as their favorite/most effective part of the session." - Derik Badman

"I've successfully used mind mapping with students who had a topic but needed ideas/keywords. First I do an example on the white board then let them do their own. (With extra time, you can also get them to show their mind map to a neighbor for extra ideas)." - Derik Badman

"Thanks for pointing that out, Rob, I must have missed your review. HDF Kitto in his “Greek Tragedy” makes a great case for “hubris” not being the defining element of Greek tragedy that most take it for (at least I’m pretty sure that was Kitto who made that claim), but that certainly seems to be Mazzucchelli’s opinion (that it is)." - Derik Badman

"Thanks for the correction, Travis. I’ll make an edit in the post. I agree there is ambiguity to the ending, but I think there are enough previous elements in the book to point to my reading of it. (Maybe also I just like the idea of protagonists dying at the end of their story.)" - Derik Badman

"Copyright isn’t the only issue. Even offering samples from different pages would have been difficult. The pages included in the review are ones offered as promos at the publisher’s site. If we had wanted to offer any different examples I would have had to scan them myself, and my scanner won’t fit the book at all (neither dimension). I would have had to piece one page together from like… 4 or more scans." - Derik Badman