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Dance, Monkeys, Dance!

If you didn’t make it to the Dumbrella session at SDCC, it’s on YouTube. If you don’t have time for the full hour, check out part 6 (featuring Scott McCloud’s question about The Magic Number, and the discussion of how the webcomic model can apply to politics) and part 7 (featuring mad rhymes and webcomicker dance moves).

In other news, webcomic raises the dead:

Last week, Edward Gorey contributed a guest strip to my webcomic, Herman the Manatee. The week before it was George Herriman! Herman has only been around for six months but it’s already attracting the attention of legendary, albeit deceased, cartoonists.

We at Fleen are glad to see Gorey and Herriman getting work again.

In other, other news, new webstrip The System is doing some interesting stuff with a highly restricted visual vocabulary — it’s done entirely in the icons that make up informational/warning signs. As a platform for pure writing, it’s half a notch below Dinosaur Comics, but weirdly enough what it really reminds me of is a Lolcat.

Those things have a syntax and grammar all their own, and so do sign icons … you can’t just slap ’em up there and have it automatically work. We at Fleen will be keeping our eye on The System and seeing how long creator “Rosscott” can keep up this very precise exercise.

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