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The comics collages, or conversational comics, that were previously found on the paperbubbles blog (even though I previously called it cosmic bubbles) are now being put on this blog, though the older posts can still be found at http://paperbubbles.wordpress.com.  I made the mistake when I first made the blog, to put comics collages and anagrams on the same blog…too hard to sort them out. Of course, by separating them you don’t get the full story. These often follow my real life, such as this post from October, 2008, about 8 items picked at the grocery store. I know it sounds boring but I tell what things are coincidences or synchronistic that matched what was found in the comics of the day, either via the comics collage or the anagram, or both. 

An example of this “anagram language” is found in this post: http://paperbubbles.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/secret-anagram-language/

Does it matter if the format is changed? You tell me.

When you look at a post you may not understand what it is you are looking at if you have never run across these conversational comics in the past, or anagrams. In order to do this, I look at hundreds of comic strips every day while I have my morning coffee. When I am drawn to a certain text bubble I copy and paste it into my paint program, continuing to do so as I come to the end of reading comics and then at that point I take what I have copied and put them into a new, somewhat conversational order, generally a completely different context.

After the “conversation” has been completed I then will select a number of the texts to anagram, sometimes highlighting those with a colored field or outline. In this case, for example, I am using all of the comics in the “collage”. What I get is an anagram that may be about something that happened that day, something in the headlines, something I am thinking about, something far-fetched, something maybe people think is impossible, something of faith, or just something silly. What the mini-collage of words has given me is two conversations, one in comics text form and the other in a new form, using the same words:

I hope my explanation makes it easier for you to understand now.

The idea is to make life more fun by noticing the connections

 or that which is hidden in the comics.

;)

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