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Why are comics and poems alike 5: metrics p1
If we look at the following definition: “the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line” we can easily conclude that poems and comics are nothing alike in a matter of measure. Particularly since poems are measured in syllables. The syllable is one sound represented by a combo of consonants and vowels that can be counted within the basic unit of a poem called a line (or the more common in Spanish, verse). A bunch of lines make up a stanza (more commonly in Spanish a strophe). English and Spanish count in different ways and give the poems different names based…
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¿En peligro?
Cuando los institutos son desconocidos peligran…
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Bad dog
Limp.Hanging from those teeth.What terror did you feel?How could I teach?This wolf turned into bitch,By years and years of hefting I think.Back to predator out of dry food's greed.Euthanasia if you plead.Disowning perhaps.Whatever remains.I'm sure I need to act.But the fur kid smiles.How to change what I can't?
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Cuando la imagen puede más que la lógica
Te ayudaremos -dijo Rincewind, mirando con ansiedad el tocino que se quemaba. Aquello pareció sorprender al druida, que era bastante joven, cosa que sorprendió un poco a Rincewind. Suponía que debía de haber druidas jóvenes, al menos en teoría, pero nunca se los había imaginado. La luz fantástica. Terry Pratchett Y lo mismo con algunas otras cosas… Primero el vampiro «Nosferatu» salió en pantalla como un chupasangre poco sexy (horripilante de hecho) y después parecía que los vampiros no hacían otra cosa que … Bueno, copular con humanos, otros vampiros y finalmente, tener orgías sobrenaturales hasta que a alguien se le ocurrió desromantizarlos y regresarlos a su forma original; pero…
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Why are comics and poems alike: Sequence p4
A sequence is a succession of images in regard to the actions taking place in the different scenes of a story, which are implicitly related one to each other. Regularity means to favor the elements in an equal scale or shape to create an order or a correspondence. Predictability is to use such a pattern, order or correspondence for the reader to find what they is waiting to find. Thus, the order in which we present the elements does matter. It conditions the imagination to the following movement and the “what” we’re to tell. Since the order of words affects the sequence of the poem ̶words and symbols are, after…
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A gopher’s day
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Anonymous it went alone
Without a name,it jumped out the fence.Its tail green sparks of daytime.Name after name we got barely to d,To go back to coop,And find it just the hen inside.Where did anonymous go?Everything in a day,Sadly the cockerel vanished and we lost our rhyme.
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Criterio lector
[…]la importancia de la lectura (por no hablar de la escritura) está muy sobrevalorada, y a lo que en realidad deberíamos prestar atención, en un mercado abarrotado y ahíto de libros, no es a la muerte de la lectura, sino a la muerte del criterio. Es relativamente fácil adquirir el hábito de la lectura; es mucho más difícil llegar a ser un lector exigente y con criterio.Contra la lectura. Contra la lectura. Mikita Brottman. Blackie books. [The Solitary Vice (Counterpoint, 2008)]. Ikram Antaki decía que el gusto se educa. Y ahí el problema de dilucidar quien educa y cómo. Los autores ofrecen un escape… ¿Es siempre sólo un escape?Disfruta tus…
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Why are comics and poems alike: Sequence p3
ORDER MATTERS Thus, the order in which we present the elements does matter. It conditions the imagination to the following movement and the “what” we’re to tell. Unfortunately, there are no magic formulas to know if 9, 8, 7 or 3, 6, 0 is better when telling a story. It is the writer, or the comic drawer who decides that. It is even your job to decide the cliffhanger. Something readers”hate” but need in order to remain interested. ABOUT TRANSLATIONS First, let me clear I demonstrated this in Spanish. English ain’t my mother tongue AND I’m a tad tone deaf. Of the possible 8 tones of the “ma” syllable in Chinese, I…
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White dead man clothes?



