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	<title>xBlog: The visual thinking weblog &#187; Comics</title>
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		<title>Bored? Try Doodling To Keep The Brain On Task</title>
		<link>http://www.xplane.com/xblog/2009/03/16/bored-try-doodling-to-keep-the-brain-on-task/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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<p>&#8220;To understand where the compulsion to doodle comes from, the first thing you need to do is look more closely at what happens to the brain when it becomes bored. According to Jackie Andrade, a professor of psychology at the University of Plymouth, though many people assume that the brain is inactive when they&#8217;re bored, the reverse is actually true.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Mister Retro: Permanent Press Image Filter</title>
		<link>http://www.xplane.com/xblog/2008/09/24/mister-retro-permanent-press-image-filter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Vintage offset printing and ink effects for any design, photograph, type treatment or image in Photoshop.</p>
<p>Realizing that printing technology has left printed work without the texture, soul, or the spirit of vintage printing, Mister Retro created Permanent Press!</p>
<p>Take any design, photograph, type treatment, or image and transport to another time and aesthetic with our powerful and easy-to-use plug-in GUI interface. We spent thousands of hours developing this one of a kind plug-in sure to bring your work to the next level.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Halftone How-To</title>
		<link>http://www.xplane.com/xblog/2008/09/08/halftone-how-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dan Zettwoch: &#8220;I reckon I&#8217;m a little bit too young to have used actual store bought halftone paper, like the legendary (and out of business) Zip-a-Tone, which was clear plastic adhesive sheets with black dots printed on them in a variety of spacings. For a while though, I made my own &#8220;poor man&#8217;s Zip-a-Tone&#8221; out of laserjet transparencies and paste them right on my inked art with glue-sticks (see above). This was punk but messy and time-consuming to I moved to &#8220;thinking man&#8217;s Zip-a-Tone&#8221; which involves a computer (&#8221;rich man&#8217;s Zip-a-Tone?&#8221;). Here&#8217;s my process&#8230;&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Dan Zettwoch: IN MY WHEELHOUSE</title>
		<link>http://www.xplane.com/xblog/2008/08/06/dan-zettwoch-in-my-wheelhouse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;If there was ever an illustration with my name on it, it was this one I did for the Riverfront Times talking about this upcoming event at the St. Louis History Museum. James Eads + Ulysses S. Grant + Civil War Ironclad battleships = LET&#8217;S GO!!!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Grassroots Comics</title>
		<link>http://www.xplane.com/xblog/2008/07/23/grassroots-comics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;World Comics is a non-profit organization in Finland and India that promotes the use of local comics as a means for social change. <a href="http://www.worldcomics.fi/grassroots_comics.pdf">Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool</a> (PDF) is a free, downloadable manual for other non-governmental organizations about developing comics with community activists for use in their campaigns. See examples of grassroots comics in India and Africa, as well as videos and posters from grassroots comics workshops.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Navigating Comics</title>
		<link>http://www.xplane.com/xblog/2008/04/08/navigating-comics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.emaki.net/blog/2008/04/new-essay-navigating-comics.html]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to announce that I have a new essay online: <a href="http://www.emaki.net/readings.html">Navigating Comics: Reading Strategies of Page Layouts</a>. This paper reports the findings of an experiment I conducted looking at how people navigate through comic pages. The big finding: people don&#8217;t just mimic text going left-to-right and down.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Fold-Ins, Past and Present</title>
		<link>http://www.xplane.com/xblog/2008/04/02/fold-ins-past-and-present/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xplane.com/xblog/2008/04/02/fold-ins-past-and-present/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Al Jaffee&#8217;s fold-ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form.&#8221; And here&#8217;s the full article: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/arts/design/30genz.html?ex=1364529600&#038;en=1eb362dd8be0a937&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all">A Veteran Mad Man Remains in the Fold</a>.</p>
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		<title>markerbored</title>
		<link>http://www.xplane.com/xblog/2008/03/28/markerbored/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re roommates. We make call-and-response baroque scenes on a dry erase board. They usually have nerdy characters from nerdy things in them. We&#8217;re Pat Barrett and Todd McArthur.&#8221; (Thanks <a href="http://www.drawn.ca/">Drawn!</a>)</p>
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		<title>Bitstrips</title>
		<link>http://www.xplane.com/xblog/2008/03/11/bitstrips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an Online Comic Strip, Made by YOU! Got a funny joke or a story to tell? Get ready to share it in a whole new way. Our FREE online toys make it FAST, FUN and EASY to create awesome comics.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>ILLUSTRATION ART</title>
		<link>http://www.xplane.com/xblog/2007/12/03/illustration-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Celebrating great art in humble places: the glorious talents of the artists who illustrated stories, advertisements and comics in the 20th century.&#8221;</p>
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