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„It’s undeniable that the rise of the Internet had a profound impact on cartooning as a profession, giving cartoonists both new tools and a new publishing and/or distribution medium. Online culture also spawned the emergence of viral memes in the late 1990s. Michelle Ann Abate, an education professor at The Ohio State University, argues in a paper published in INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, that memes—specifically, image macros—represent a new type of digital comic, right down to the cognitive and creative ways in which they operate.”

The case for memes as a new form of comics – Ars Technica

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If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. – Kurt Vonnegut

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“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

Quite nice! I plan to do so even on this blog.

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“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
– Frank Zappa

I think the first thing in any endeavor is to be different. The second one is to be good in what you’re doing. But, first, be different.

I’ll try and post accordingly.

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At times, I’ll try, on this blog, to post things from different perspectives:
a. if A says X, what would A say of a Non-X? How would A look at X from the opposite perspective?

b. Let’s say I’m A, and I say X. How would a different person, characterized by so-and-so traits, would look at X? What’s B’s perspective?

„Reading articles from other perspectives isn’t enough. Try writing one.”

Ways to Burst Your Filter Bubble – Bloomberg.

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On the blog, I launch today a new category, short stories. I’ll post in it, guess what?, short stories! Hope I haven’t shocked you all that much!

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