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Books
work like films: they take you somewhere, give you
unique slices of space that add up to a whole. And if
the slices are tickled just so, they can disappear and
leave just a trace of themselves. Unlike kids who
doodled in the corners of their textbooks I made my
first flipbook when I was working at a cartoon studio.
As the apprentice, naturally worried about being laid
off, I pretended to be busy during lulls, drawing
something on a memo pad. I used these flipbooks to
make animated films, shooting the contents, showing
the act of drawing, playing the random-access pages
back and forth to trick the eye's flow of time. But
mostly I just like to
riffle
flip
rub
scrub
strum
thumb
skim
stroke
flick
finger
the pages.
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