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The Color and the Shape: Procedural Rhetoric in Works by Daniel Clowes and David Mazzucchelli Abram Fox University of Maryland [email protected] abramfox.com

The Color and the Shape: Procedural Rhetoric in Works by Daniel Clowes and David Mazzucchelli

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Paper presented at the 2013 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference.

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The Color and the Shape:Procedural Rhetoric in Works by

Daniel Clowes and David Mazzucchelli

Abram FoxUniversity of [email protected]

abramfox.com

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Scott McCloudExcerpt, Understanding Comics:

The Invisible Art, 1993

Chris WareExcerpt, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, 2000

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Daniel ClowesWilson2010

David MazzucchelliAsterios Polyp

2009

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Jason RohrerScreenshot from Passage

2008

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Daniel ClowesEightball #7

November, 1991

Daniel ClowesGhost World

1997

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Daniel Clowes“Cute Dog,” p. 10

Wilson, 2010

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