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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Monster: a children's book is central to the plot. I can't say more though because that would give it away. :)

More than Monster, Urasawa's 20th Century Boys has a meta-narrative. The premise is that this group of kids played games where they pretended to save the world from various disasters, and now that they've grown up "Friend," a mysterious cult leader, is engineering those same disasters/acts of heroism. Features things like giant robots made out of tinfoil. There's also a side-story about a cowardly manga artist leading the resistance XD.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: in part 4 of the manga (which isn't out yet), there's a character named Kishibe Rohan, who is a manga artist/male model/author self-insertion, and draws a comic very similar to Jojo. There's also a character who fights with the power of manga sound effects.

I've lost track of amount of shoujo manga I've read where the characters joke about being in a shoujo manga. Also very self-referential: Mitsuru Adachi.

Fushigi Yugi, Miyaka is sucked into a book and for a while, at least, her friend reads along to find out what became of her, sort of like in Neverending Story.

In the fifth(?) volume of Yami no Matsuei, Tsuzuki is drawn into a book written by his admirer, the Count, in which he and his co-workers take on various fantasy roles. His avatar is a girl, XD.

Princess Tutu goes without saying.

Clover: sort of like a songfic, Oruha's lyrics tie into what's going on in the story, as well as inspiring the characters. Okay, I'm stretching, I'll stop.

[oyceter]

Ok, you (and everyone else) are convincing me that I need to get my hands on 20th Century Boys.

Thanks so much for all the references!