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)?

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I know I've seen this, but only as a one-off joke panel, so I can't recall any specific examples.

I have a brief sequence that's kind of like that in one of my forthcoming manga, where the hero is narrating his martial arts training in a manner something like this:

Narration: It was hard at first...
Panel: He gets kicked in the head.

Narration: ...but after a while it got easier.
Panel: A small woman throws him across the room.

Narration: Really! You should see the other guy!
Panel: He is sitting on the edge of the floor holding an ice-pack to his head. The small woman sits beside him, bright and chipper, with a tiny band-aid on her cheek.

[oyceter]

I know! I know it's done fairly often in Western comics, but I can't think of any manga examples, so I don't know how it'd look in manga.