Stories of Baba Yaga is my latest fascination, and I loved this bit where we find out the first witch is a mortal who tricked the gods. Listen to the full episode here.
Oh, and I think the transcription software goofed. I believe the narrator refers to the god as Veles, not Bellis.
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I’m starting a series of special discussions with some friends, focusing on art that influenced The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue. In this first TPD Special I’m joined by Ben Hatke, author of the upcoming Things In the Basement, for an enthusiastic exploration of the Indiana Jones movies. We look at how they resonated with us as young people, how they influenced our work, and what we take away from them today.
Lots of story analysis and philosophy in this one!
If you prefer video, you can listen to the episode on YouTube below.
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Our second WATCHALONG is not from G1 TRANSFORMERS, but from BEAST WARS TRANSFORMERS! It is season two’s three part season ender, the apex of that series. Why not start at the first episode? THERE’S NO TIME FOR THAT! If you haven’t watched BEAST WARS, you NEED to. It’s only 52 episodes, and some of the best Transformerness EVER PRODUCED. So watch it all on your own time!
To watch the very same YouTube video we did while recording, go to the channel Al’s Replay here: Pt 1 , Pt 2 , & Pt 3 or use your own dvd, or watch on Tubi.tv.
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FMYL 100 – The Agenda, pts 1-3 Watchalong Read More »
Something I’ve been watching on YouTube. Follow the playlist here.
Robert Moore Lecture: The Golden Well (1993) Read More »
And here’s the final word on my 2023 residency at Tri-Rivers Career Center! This was made possible by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council (OAC). Over nine weeks I worked with the students to make their own minicomics, which they debuted during Free Comic Book Day at Thunderfury Comics in Marion, Ohio.
I can’t say enough about the OAC’s TeachArts Ohio grants. Thanks to them, I get to see kids walk taller semester after semester.
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…it doesn’t have to be by a well-known artist. A child can do an archetype, maybe probably does more type of [archetypal] images than artists do. They spontaneously arise.
Thomas Singer, Jungian Analyst
I was arrested by this bit on a recent This Jungian Life Podcast. It seems to harmonize with something I’ve been trying to capture in my classroom; that a comic’s resonance is not dependent on the quality of its images. In other words, you don’t have to be a great illustrator to be a great storyteller. Anyone can make a comic that moves an audience, even if the author doesn’t identify as an artist. But this discussion on archetypal images adds another dimension to that idea. Maybe there’s something about art that emerges from a place of spontaneity that carries more charge with it. A practiced artist can do this, of course, but it’s a combination of the spontaneity and skill at work. It’s not just the skill.
I’m going to think about this and how I can more thoughtfully impress this on my students.
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Some notes from a short classroom lesson I led on word balloon design. Symmetry and negative space are two of my basic concerns when structuring the text in a balloon.
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This podcast is a treasure for creative people (that’s all of us, by the way). Even if you don’t think of yourself as a writer, Alex and Chris have something to offer you. Their wisdom and reflections don’t just apply to writing artfully, they’re helpful to live artfully.
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A wintery panel from my upcoming book, The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue. I thought having a chapter of the book take place in the arctic would make things easier on artist Jerzy and his color assistant, but I forgot about the woods the characters needed to hide in!
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I was charmed by this talk by Alan Watts. First, there’s the intuition that we’d eventually have phones that can bring us anything we want, but then he steers right into a consequence of abundance. Reminded me of the Twilight Zone episode where a thief dies and goes to what he believes is heaven. Every desire he’s ever had is instantly available to him. But is that heaven, or the other place?
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