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Valerie Stivers (via Fanta Sylla)

From the 10 page comic I drew for S! (The Baltic Comics Magazine) issue 35 “Bonkers” out soon from Kus in Latvia.

Leonore Mau (1916-2013) - Carnival - Trinidad, 1974. © Nachlass Leonore Mau, S. Fischer Stiftung

Tomek in Wonderland - directed by Stanisław Ochmański, stage design: Jerzy Kolecki - Rabcio-Zdrowotek Puppet Theatre, Rabka, Poland, 1967. Photo: Jerzy Sierosławski (1921-2007). Rabcio Puppet Theatre archive.

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Outtake from Making Comics. This is an early format attempt. In the beginning I just like to start building pages and then try to figure out what they are trying to turn into. You can learn so much by copying frames of comics. These images were copied from the brilliant “Aya:Life in Yop City” by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie @drawnandquarterly https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx3wEcQjfkI/?igshid=844ilui9md7n

Make racism wrong again

Little Walter - Sad Hours

Fred Below - drums

Pattern formation is extremely common in nature, from the dendritic growth of trees and snowflakes to the stripes of a tiger. A new paper describes how a thin layer of ice in a liquid can form labyrinthine patterns when illuminated with near-infrared light. Both the liquid and ice are maintained at a constant temperature below the melting point, but the ice absorbs the near-infrared light more effectively than the water. This means that parts of the ice that are far from the liquid warm and melt faster, creating holes that can then allow a pocket of liquid to seep in and reduce the absorption rate. The ice crystals themselves thin and expand across the surface at the expense of more holes, which eventually create larger channels that pock the ice. (Image and research credit: S. Preis et al.; via Nature; submitted by Kam-Yung Soh)

The beautiful colors of a soap film reflect its variations in thickness. As a film drains and evaporates, it turns to shades of gray and black as it gets thinner. More than fifty years ago, one scientist proposed a free-energy-based explanation for how such ultrathin films might evolve. But it’s taken another half a century for experimental techniques to reach a point where the thickness of these ultrathin films could be measured well enough to test that theory. The new mechanism, known as spinodal stratification, has been observed in both vertical films (top) and foam (bottom) but has so far not been observed in any horizontal configuration, suggesting that buoyant effects are likely important, too. (Image and research credit: S. Yilixiati et al.; submitted by James S.)

The Minimal Self (1984 ed.)

My weird collages help me in the time when I just don’t feel like drawing or writing. There is a strangeness in them that starts to make me want to write and draw. For me the trick is to see the page as a place rather than a thing. I’m just wandering in this place as a stranger. https://www.instagram.com/p/BviJFZSFnoZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ef80gwwxmve