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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 9h

Unfortunately, b&w doesn't convey just how bright that pouch is.

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 12h

Today's churchdoodle is a Magnificent Frigatebird. I unfortunately ran out of time to finish texturing the branches on the right.

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I'm playing Horizon Forbidden West for the first time. I remember goons flipping their wigs over Aloy's looks in this one and I don't get it because she looks identical. I guess her hair's longer?

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And oh yes, I only read vol 1. I meant to put that up above.

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I'll also say that for whatever reason, I get Mind MGMT kinship vibes from the book. Like if you like one, you'll probably like the other well enough. And what the heck, my library has the rest of the series, so I'll probably check it out.

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Copra reads like what I'd imagine Suicide Squadron must have been. Like a dirty dozen kind of set-up. Rough riders and dire stakes. Only it's missing a lot of the corniness that governs the genre. It's got that intentional absence of preciousness that you'll find in, say, Grand Budapest Hotel.

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So now when people ask if I can recommend any superhero comics, I can say: Yeah, Astro City, a couple runs of Daredevil and Thor and whatever, mid-80s X-Men, maybe Bendis' Ultimate Spider-Man, and yeah, Copra.

Comics I Read 34) Copra by Michel Fiffe Okay so we all know how I'm not into superhero comics, right? That should be pretty obvious. Does Copra change that? Not really. Is it good? Yes, I think it probably is.

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Oh man that's so cool. I hope the movies good (I've never seen an adaptation)

Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Miyazaki's Ronja The Robber's Daughter (2014) is 10.5 hours over 26 eps and was ffffantastic.

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Comics I Read 33) Carrie & Mollie by Caitlin Cass bsky.app/profile/seth...

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Comics & Rhetoric, Week 7: work on questions about the ethics of nonfiction comics, centering the late-summer online debate about Tillie Walden's comic Charity & Sylvia (2026) and Rachel Hope Cleves's prose history Charity & Sylvia (2015). #comicsteaching

Comics & Rhetoric Week 7: Week 7
Monday, Oct 5 - Friday, Oct 9
The Ethics of Nonfiction Comics
Please complete everything listed under “prepare before class” ahead of each class meeting and bring your sketchbook and drawing implements of choice to class every time we meet.

a table containing an overview of the week's assignments and due dates
Date Prepare Before Class In-Class Activities
Mon
Oct 5
Tillie Walden, Charity & Sylvia (2026), excerptsDownload excerpts
Charity & Sylvia website
part 2Links to an external site.
part 3Links to an external site.
about pageLinks to an external site.
discuss adaptation choices and documentation in Walden's Charity & Sylvia
style and amplification exercise
Wed
Oct 7
Rachel Hope Cleves, Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (2015), excerpts (.pdf)Download excerpts (.pdf) [read at least chs. 13-14 and look at images, notes]
Social media discourse about Walden and Cleves:
Cleves' open letterLinks to an external site. re: Walden's Charity & Sylvia (29 June 2016)
Samantha Puc, "Professor Rachel Hope Cleves wants Walden’s CHARITY & SYLVIA licensed as an adaptationLinks to an external site." (30 June 2026)
"A Statement from the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont HistoryLinks to an external site." (July 2026)
thene, "Charity and Sylvia: the extraordinary claims of Rachel Hope ClevesLinks to an external site." (13 August 2026)
discuss Cleves' claims about Walden's "adaptation"
discuss assumptions about citation and disclosure
Fri
Oct 9
Lynda Barry, Making Comics, p. 171-197
introduce Argument Comic assignment
Barry exercise and discussion
Due: Source Annotation Comic (due by Oct 9: preferably hand in your final version and submit other materials to Canvas--all due by 11:59pm)
Due: Source Annotation Reflection (due by Oct 9, 11:59pm)

Rachel Hope Cleves's Charity & Sylvia (2015)

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I read C&P for the first time a couple years ago and it was a hoot. The background was filled with so much color, these vibrant full-bodied characters who only get maybe two pages of screentime.

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Yeah, I clicked (baited!) before I saw it was CBR. Once there, I scrolled (doomed!)

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Like I dunno something like Moon or Solaris

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I don't know why I, not a hard core sci-fi dude, mmthought I'd be introduced to some great sci-fi films

10 Greatest Sci-fi Movies. Ranked By CBR Readers

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Comics I Read 32) Shadows of the Sea by Cathy Malkasian bsky.app/profile/seth...

Holy crap I just got to a part in East Of Eden that broke my heart so hard.

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I organize my non-manga by size then author where possible. I've got two sections (normal-sized books and smaller books) and both are alpha by creator I most associate with the work. Manga is kind of just whatever fits according to book height and series length.

I'm mainly impressed that you could line up your Eartha spine with the rest. I had to rotate mine vertically and fit it with my tall books.

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Looks like I'll just have to get her entire bibliography 😅

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I really do need to read more Malkasian. This was great and Eartha was wonderful.

Every year I think, "I don't have money for this, I should stop," but I can't. Getting these in the mail is too dear.

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I've been subscribed to Cass' bimonthly minicomics for 13yrs now and it's always worth it to find a new Postal Constituent envelope in the mail. Carrie & Mollie was vol 15, iss 3, meaning I must have started my sub in the midst of vol 4 after having bought a bunch of her previous work at SPX 2013.

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[ASIDE: Cass within specifies "women who love women" and "lesbian-like" relationships, and I don't know why. I suspect it has something to do with the cultural meaning to "lesbian" as a denominator and perhaps those cultural attachments are anachronistic when applied to 1900 relationships? maybe??]

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Cass remains clear-eyed about the heroes she features in her project, outlining both their moral successes as well as their moral failings. Carrie & Mollie describes other women who love women throwing other women who love women under the bus (an old story that remains imminent).

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As with the rest of her ongoing Western Civ project in all its incarnations, Cass is interested in both the wonder and the folly of our historical antecedents, the follies usually rooted in patriarchy but also often enough in privilege as well.

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Comics I Read 33) Carrie & Mollie by Caitlin Cass Continuing the project of Women's Work/Suffrage Song, Cass presents the contracted story of romantically paired suffragists, Carrie Chapman Catt and Mollie Garrett Hay.

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It's also warm and heartfelt and steadfast and I found myself surprised to discover my heart lumped up all plumply in my throat as the main character, a champion fish gutter, comes to reckon via forced flashback with a True Thing She'd Been Avoiding.

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Shadows is critical of the world but neither as dull as allegory nor so sharp as critique, occupying instead a space that allows it to poke at many of the frictions native to the daily living without commiting itself to being A Work About ____.

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Shadows Of The Sea often feels like it must be allegory but instead it only piles up a collection of things that put you in mind of things in the world.

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Comics I Read 31) Is Ted Ok? by Dave Chisholm bsky.app/profile/seth...

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17 years ago, my wife and I played through the first one and (obviously) fell in love with the little robot. That year for our anniversary, I painted her a little painting.

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I remember Hibbs' project ending. Very much a shame -_-

Eating homemade hole-in-the-wall-style garlic cheese sticks (the best kind probs) while the kids reiterate on their Subnautica lore deep dives.

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Do you know if we get book market gn numbers? I'd love to know where pubs like Abrams, Metropolitan, Pantheon, Seven Seas, D+Q, Fanta, etc land.

Oh, duh. I didn't even clock "comic stores" in the title. My bad. Thanks!

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I should reread these; I haven't read them since floppies!

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This is probably my favorite FF run after Simonson's. It was just Fun.

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Okay, yes, AI can easily be mistaken for the diminutive of Alvin, Albert, or Alfred, but everyone knows SI is just Sports Illustrated

Erik is ready to have his socks knocked off. You could be like Erik.

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Interesting! Does this include non-floppy gn publishers like Scholastic, Viz, Abrams, etc?

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Haha. My wrist is sore and cramped now.

Thanks, Barry! I'm having a lot of fun with this book :)

Got to the point of East Of Eden describing Samuel's reaction to Una's death and, well, I just want to go home and hold myself against the day one of my children goes before me. Which, with my age and health vs their youth and vibrancy, would only happen in the greatest tragedy.

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Got the bold entries down. I'll probably switch to a micron for the definitions, but for the bold entries themselves, I used my favorite pen, the Uniball Vision Fine.

Text on the screen vs lettering on the page.

And now the big lettering begins 😯 (Based off scans of various 19th century Websites Dictionaries found on archive.org)

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