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Been doing a lot of Kamandi reading lately and gleaning some style from Jack 'the King' Kirby.

I've also been thinking a lot about the idea that perhaps why Kirby is so renowned is because he created a new language of superhero comics. If you envision the characters as 'characters' in the sense of a symbol (ala a Chinese character), things become fun. For, rather than a symbol representing a sound, i.e. a letter, comic book characters represent complex ideologies, relaying ample information to you at the same speed as say, these words you are reading.

Kirby, knowingly or unknowingly, transformed the medium of comics with his choice of placement, line thickness, shadows, expressions, etc. and a large percentage of superhero artists (whom as of late have actually been incorporating other languages, such as Tezuka's ) continue to 'speak' it.

My aspiration, then, is to eventually help create a new language...

so yeah, normal thoughts.

Description
Been doing a lot of Kamandi reading lately and gleaning some style from Jack 'the King' Kirby.

I've also been thinking a lot about the idea that perhaps why Kirby is so renowned is because he created a new language of superhero comics. If you envision the characters as 'characters' in the sense of a symbol (ala a Chinese character), things become fun. For, rather than a symbol representing a sound, i.e. a letter, comic book characters represent complex ideologies, relaying ample information to you at the same speed as say, these words you are reading.

Kirby, knowingly or unknowingly, transformed the medium of comics with his choice of placement, line thickness, shadows, expressions, etc. and a large percentage of superhero artists (whom as of late have actually been incorporating other languages, such as Tezuka's ) continue to 'speak' it.

My aspiration, then, is to eventually help create a new language...

so yeah, normal thoughts.