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

[octopedingenue]

Manga doesn't really do much of the "neat caption on top of picture / commenting on picture," though, to have that interplay. (There's the "shoujo inner monologue meandering through the whitespace," but...not really teh smae) Which is how I tend to spot out clunky OEL manga: "Stop putting intrusive little boxes all over everything!!"

Speaking of which, a comic I missed that sort of applies, not really, but around the edges: Cable & Deadpool.

[oyceter]

Yeah, I know! I realized this when I figured all the panel layouts in my head were from Western comics examples, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do it in manga-style.

Do you think the manga you mentioned above does something like this? I am not wedded to the caption-picture combo, but I want some sort of contrast between the text and the picture, and am not sure how to do it.

[octopedingenue]

For some kind of ironic contrast between text and picture, you've got to have the narrator telling the story (to you / to hirself) and lying (to you / to hirself), or unaware of the contrast; the former is not so common in confessional introspective shojo monologuing, so I am racking my brain for the latter...

There's a scene with not-quite-right-but-almost scene/image commentary like that in Gekka no Kimi; give me a minute to pull it up.

[oyceter]

That latter bit from GnK is very cool, thank you again for putting them up!