Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

“Reading Understanding Comics blew my teenage mind, and gave me a toolbox full of ideas that I still use today.”

— Raina Telgemeier

Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Winner, 1994

The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication.

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form.

You can find mention of this book on both Youtube, The Internet Archive, and other websites.

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Breaking the First Rule of Fight Club

"The Club That Dare Not Speak Its Name"

This is an essay that appears in the new and wide-ranging SmartPop anthology, entitled You Do Not Talk About Fight Club: I Am Jack’s Completely Unauthorized Essay Collection. The anthology was edited by the brilliant media ecologist Read Mercer Schuchardt and features a forward by Chuck Palahniuk himself.

The Physics of Fight Club

There is a savage joy in violence. The secret of the success of Fight Club is its acceptance of that basic and uncomfortable truth, which is as well-known to every martial artist, gang member, and football hooligan as it is completely alien to the sedentary sort of middle-aged individuals favored by those who publish novels. For as men have known since long before the Colosseum’s sands were first soaked with blood, there is no adrenaline rush so great as the moment when two men put one another to the physical test.

Fight Club is a fascinating little book which not only embraced that truth, but in doing so, translated surprisingly well to the cinematic medium. This should probably not have been surprising, given that the author’s witch’s brew of male fury and raw but stylized violence is almost perfectly suited for that male audience which so enjoys the cinematic adventures of Bruce Lee, Jean-Claude van Damme, Jackie Chan, and a host of other aggressively oriented male leads. The combination of that visceral appeal with the brilliant casting of a ripped and shirtless Brad Pitt for the ladies all but assured Hollywood hit status.

When viewed from a technical perspective, Fight Club is nearly as absurd as any wuxia extravaganza featuring aerial acrobatics and mad dashes through the treetops, whereas from a psychological perspective, it is impressively accurate. To the combat-aware reader, the book raises the interesting question of how the author could have gotten the latter so right and the former so wrong.

Fight Club subscribes to the common conventional fiction that it is not the size of the dog in the fight that matters, but rather the size of the fight in the dog. Although in Fight Club terms, this might be better described as the size of the proverbial canine’s violent sociopathy. As with most aphorisms, there is an element of truth to this; all things being equal, the tougher individual will usually prevail. But outside of the formalized structure of the boxing ring, all things are very seldom equal.

The most basic truth of unarmed combat is that F = M x A: Force equals Mass times Acceleration. Since Force is the measurement of what is smashing into your face and is the primary variable determining exactly what the effect of that blow will be, it is very important to understand the significance of this equation. Since Mass is a function of size, this means that a larger individual will usually pack a more powerful punch than a smaller one. Usually, but not always.

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Open Library

Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, Brewster Kahle, Alexis Rossi, Anand Chitipothu, and Rebecca Malamud, Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization. It has been funded in part by grants from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation. Open Library provides online digital copies in multiple formats, created from images of many public domain, out-of-print, and in-print books.

Open Library claims to have over 20 million records in its database. Copies of the contents of tens of thousands of modern books have been made available from 150 libraries and publishers for ebook controlled digital lending. Other books including in-print and in-copyright books have been scanned from copies in library collections, library discards, and donations, and are also available for lending in digital form. In total, the Open Library offers copies of over 1.4 million books for what it calls "digital lending", but critics have called distribution of digital copies a violation of copyright law.

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50 years ago, Big Sugar quietly paid three scientists to point the blame for chronic disease at cholesterol and saturated fat. — Headlines — March 7, 2024

50 years ago, Big Sugar quietly paid three scientists, Doctors Frederick Stare, Mark Hegsted, and Robert Gandy, to point the blame for chronic disease at cholesterol and saturated fat.

Millions of Americans died as a result, here’s how... FULL STORY

Doritos Now Has Its Own Bud Light-Style Drama

Brand has since cut ties with trans influencer Samantha Hudson. FULL STORY

‘Sweet Baby Inc. detected’ Detects New Game With SBI Involvement – EA’s Tales of Kenzera: ZAU

Strap in for a ride through the tangled web of marketing hype and emotional manipulation. FULL STORY

GSK’s New Long-Acting HIV Injectable Shows Promise Suppressing Viral Load

According to GSK, one of the main reasons why some HIV-positive individuals find it difficult to control their virus is inconsistent adherence. FULL STORY

Warner Brothers Confirms Rooster Teeth Is Shutting Down, Gets Roasted On Twitter

Warner Brothers Discovery is currently trying to shop The Roost Podcast to potential buyers, as well as several of their original shows such as Red vs Blue, RWBY, and GEN:Lock. FULL STORY

John Kerry: Public Would ‘Feel Better’ about Ukraine War If Russia Tried to ‘Reduce Emissions’

“Maybe that would open up the door for people to feel better about what Russia is choosing to do at this point in time,” he said. FULL STORY

VIDEO: Migrants storm the Icelandic parliament as they debated tougher immigration laws.

They demand housing and their families to join them in Iceland. FULL STORY

**LibsofTikTok DAILY BRIEFING: "Bathroom Brawl, Toe Sucking Part Two, Nonbinary Bulge, and More!"

Group of thugs beat up student in bathroom, toe sucking saga revealed, nonbinary teacher shows bulge through dress, and illegal rapist finally arrested. FULL STORY

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Archbishop: Priests Can Refuse Gay Blessings — Headlines — Jan. 8, 2024

Archbishop: Priests Can Refuse Gay Blessings

Abp. Cordileone sends memo to priests. FULL STORY

The Ellis Insight Promo

Dedicated, daily reporting of key developments in districts across the United States. FULL STORY

'Kissing Cardinal' Authors 'Porno Theology' | Rome Dispatch

Cdl. Fernández’s book normalizes homosexual relationships. FULL STORY

Cardinal: Priests Can Bless If They Want

Cdl. McElroy lets priests decide whether to bless gay couples. FULL STORY

Shrinking Army Special Operations Is a Bad Idea for Deterring China

The U.S. Army's unable to meet recruitment goals, decides to shed itself of 3,000 trained and experienced Special Forces soldiers as a Marxist insurgency begins to escalate and the gatewaypundit is talking about China? FULL STORY

Catholic Preschools Challenge Policy

Call Colorado LGBT rule contrary to First Amendment. FULL STORY

In the wake of Harvard President Claudine Gay Resignation, MIT begins to investigate their Faculty, Admin, and Board for plagiarism and fraud

Launching a plagiarism review of all current MIT faculty, President Kornbluth, members of MIT’s administration, and its board. FULL STORY

Confronting Nicaragua Over Detained Clergy?

Human rights advocates urge US Congress to pass bill. FULL STORY

Americans Continue to Arm Themselves at Record Rates

As the pressure against the Second Amendment mounts, more and more Americans — including women — are exercising their rights guaranteed by it. FULL STORY

Young Catholics March in Mexico

Event happening January 17. FULL STORY

Lionsgate And Hasbro Reach $500 Million Media Deal While Both Companies Lay Off 30% Of Workforces To Begin The Year

Amidst ongoing challenges in the industry, Hasbro terminated about 1,100 employees this last December. FULL STORY

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Wicked Washington Post Attacks Nobel Laureate — The Vortex

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Dr. John Clauser faces media's wrath for debunking globalist climate agenda.

When it comes to the climate, it's proven to be a very useful tool for the promotion of the communist agenda, perhaps even more so than the illegal immigration issue has been. The reason why is that immigration is essentially a U.S.-only issue, while climate alarmism has been ginned up to be a worldwide issue.

It is two separate lines of attack ultimately aimed at destabilizing the republic, of course, but the climate cause has diverted trillions of U.S. tax dollars into the pockets of globalists and their agenda, with no end in sight. These people are enemies of the republic, both foreign and domestic.

And in their push to end America, they have employed a dizzying array of weapons, with one of the major ones being the two-sided coin of propaganda and censorship. The censorship of scientists who challenge the communist narrative is pretty well attested to — even so far as attacking and canceling a Nobel prize winner, Dr. John Clauser, who was a featured presenter at this week's Deposit of Faith Coalition press conference in Baltimore.

Of course, the Marxist media could not resist taking a pot shot at Clauser. In this, it was the Washington Post who attended the press conference and went on to publish this headline: "He won a Nobel Prize. Then he started denying climate change."

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Biden-Harris Admin Aiding Censorship but Won't Help Americans — The Vortex

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The Luciferian alliance of big government, mainstream media and Silicon Valley.

I heard on the internet, and you won't hear it on major Marxist media outlets (not reported or even discussed), that:

• More than 9 million children in America face hunger with no food — Biden hasn't asked for an aid package for them
• Thirty-four thousand veterans in America are homeless — Biden hasn't asked for an aid package for them
• Eight million Americans are working two jobs to afford inflation — Biden hasn't asked for an aid package for them
• The U.S. southern border is being overrun, and Border Patrol can't keep up with record numbers — Biden hasn't asked for an aid package for them
• Sixty-one percent of Americans can't afford to buy a house to raise a family — Biden hasn't asked for an aid package for them.
• The U.S. tax system is nothing but a giant bank for everyone except Americans. How much longer can we sustain this?

Those straightforward and truthful observations are coming from Twitter account Travis, who happens to be about 50 miles up the road from us here at Church Militant. He's a good dude.

Major media, Giant Tech and Big Social Media can't let those kinds of discussions break out, because they evolve into further more-pressing questions, which, in the end, lead to the unraveling of the carefully constructed Marxist narrative, a narrative whose sole purpose is to keep people dumb so they can be controlled.

Marxism is from Hell because its single starting point, its foundational principle, is denying the inherent God-given dignity of every human being. Marxism is atheistic by its very nature. There's no escaping that. And since its author is the Devil, we know, as Our Blessed Lord told us, "There is no truth in him"; He was [a liar and] a murderer from the beginning."

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Big Tech Partners with Joe Biden to Censor Opposition | The Vortex

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Julian Assange, Oliver Stone and Jordan Peterson speak up.

So just how bad has censorship and "cancel culture" gotten? Well, imagine a scene where a gang from all over the ideological spectrum comes together to say it's got to end. People as divergent as Oliver Stone, Jordan Peterson, Julian Assange, Richard Dawkins, John Cleese and Tim Robbins are all joining arms and calling for it to stop.

Well, no need to imagine, because that's exactly what happened a couple of weeks ago. Those notables and another 130 high-powered leaders joined in signing the Westminster Declaration, a document calling for an end to the censorship madness because of its threat to democracy.

And at whom is the declaration aimed? Joe Biden, specifically, for his largely successful attempts to enlist Facebook and all the rest of them in censoring the legal free-speech opinions of ordinary Americans about hot-button issues of the day. To their credit, even celebrated liberals among them are saying enough is enough — so much so that they put their signatures on the document.

And when you get as wide a variance as Jordan Peterson and Tim Robbins, each in agreement that there's a big problem, then there's a big problem. Shouldn't be too long now before they are being censored, refused movie roles, canceled from college speaking engagements and so forth. As two of the signatories aptly dubbed this the "censorship industrial complex," it has reached unbelievable heights. And, of course, it's all brought to you by the communist Democrats.

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