These are plates 9 & 10 from William Blake’s little book FOR THE SEXES: The Gates of Paradise. I grabbed them off of the wonderful site The Blake Archive…. One way to read them is as adjacent comic book panels: ‘this happens and then this happens. Another is to read them as slightly
And another Blake stereoscope… (<reference: apparently without advanced skills I can’t make my post title a link to another post, too hyper a link for wordpress?)
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Stereoscope juxtaposing Plate XI from William Blake’s ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB (1826) and Panel 2, page 74 from Lynda Barry’s THE FREDDIE STORIES (1999). Separated by 173 years, sharing a similar vision. I’m sure Lynda Barry has seen this image of Blake’s. Does that make her’s a copy of his? Not necessarily. Blake himself found the poses and
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Here is a comic strip I made with Blake’s Lifemask and two of Messerschmidt’s sculptures.
