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Start now on the courses! All posts will have prompts/things to consider in what you're working on. I'll be posting often and am still working out kinks in the community. Do post though!
You're so right. I know little about manga except that my niece loves it, but Dickens's novels were all illustrated by his loyal illustrator who went by "Philz." Boz and Philz. The drawings are great. There will be a whole newsletter dedicated to that: How illustrations can work with serialized novels and memoirs (that aren't comics).