Sunday, September 16, 2007

Where do we come from? Where Are We Going?

An appropriately arcane and pretentiously-in-jokey, referential title for an introduction to a blog which exists as an experiment in messing around with blogger's interface and a place for me to stash links to webcomics that I'm reading, or interested in following, and don't want to hunt for. There might be reviews. There might be compare/contrasts to historical narrative art/art with narrations. But it's mainly a linkdump for my personal use, because I get tired of scrolling through a jillion bookmarks, and of googling for the same stuff all the time, and anyway it's become the Done Thing to have loads of different specialized blogs, and I've always been one for keeping up with the absolute latest in fads--

(I've actually seen this painting, first saw it at the BMFA when I was in junior high - very enigmatic and creepy and yes, kind of a foreshadowing of modern surrealist comics in the unconventional (for the 19th century) captioning of a canvas (as well as its embodiment of Male Gaze and Western Appropriation); Little Nemo was some years in the future when Gaugin painted it, but they share a bit of the same fin-de-siècle feeling.)

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