Random links and questions

[oyceter]

• vom_marlowe is asking who's your favorite mangaka, strictly style-wise?



• TechKnitting -- Why did no one tell me about this? This blogger would be awesome if only for her 3-in-1 circular join that eliminates the jog and weaves in your ends at the same time. While a lot of technique articles tend to be things I already know (how to gauge, etc.), TechKnitter actually provides new tips and tricks on old techniques. I think my favorite may be the 3-in-1 join and the tips on long-tail cast-on.
  
  Now all I need to do is email her to ask about good ways to do tubular cast-on in circular, non 1x1 rib tubular cast-on, and the possibilities of using Kitcherner stitch to graft together things in patterns (ribbing and anything non-stockinette and non-garter).



• And I ask everyone what comics or manga you can think of that have stories-within-stories, or stories that comment on each other (aka, the text narrative is telling a different story than the graphic narrative, but they illuminate each other)?

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[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

* And I ask everyone what comics or manga you can think of that have stories-within-stories, or stories that comment on each other (aka, the text narrative is telling a different story than the graphic narrative, but they illuminate each other)?

Watchman -- Alan Moore does this a lot, but Watchman is probably the best place to start. I'm very fond of Promethea, too.

American Born Chinese, but I expect you know about that. :)

Sandman, probably most notably in the bit in The Kindly Ones where Charles Vess does a fairy tale, but everywhere, more or less. I am fond of the single-issue short stories that reflect on the main arc. Mike Carey uses this a bit in Lucifer, too.

Bryan Talbot's Tale of One Bad Rat

The One Thousand and One Nights manhwa, whose art is good but whose stories tend to bug me

This doesn't strike me as exactly the way manga tends to do its stories within stories; it does side-stories, or stories more integrated into a looser base plot. Though I'm not convinced that feeling will stand up to a rigorous analysis. But Princess Tutu and Utena aren't exactly that sort of thing.

[oyceter]

Yeah, most of the ones I keep thinking of are comics, not manga! Though vom_marlowe did mention the stories in xxxHolic, which I will now have to reread.

Now I need to borrow One Bad Rat again! And dig out my copies of Moore!

Heh, no wonder all the paneling layouts in my head looked non-manga-esque.