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

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

I just remembered: CLAMP's Suki dakara Suki has a picture-book within the story; the main character is a somewhat childish high-school girl who enjoys picture books, and meets the writer of the picture book, and the story in the picture book is somewhat about her--it's a bit tangled.

However, there's a slight squick factor, because the main character has a crush on one of her teachers.

[oyceter]

Doh for the squick factor. CLAMP! Why?

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

That situation, along with the lovers with really disparate ages, shows up often enough in their work (teacher/student: CardCaptor Sakura, Suki, Chobits; large age difference: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999) that I think it must be one of their kinks.