The second Dabbling comic strip I launched the first one as part of the 31 Days of Magic series of posts. They’ll update on Monday evenings sometime around 8pm, at a guess, for the next few weeks. Comment on them if you’d like to see more.
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[…] I’m a great believer in the importance of the traditional 3R’s of school — readin’, ‘ritin’, and ‘rithmetic, as the saying goes. But if I could add one to that, it would be Drawing. 3R+D doesn’t really have the same euphonious folksiness that 3Rs does. But I’ve spoken here before about the Semigram, and treating drawing as a third way of understanding the world. Visual note-taking is one of those tools which we ought to do a better job of transmitting to students; but it does sometimes seems like the Ars Notaria (the art of taking notes, the art of the scribe) is really the Ars Notoria (the notorious arts, black magic, necromancy). And yet, through technical drawings, through electronics diagrams, through images, through flow diagrams and pictures, we all use images to tell stories — sometimes well, sometimes poorly. […]
Probably one of the more accurate angel interactions I’ve seen in a comic heh.