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<div dir="auto">Hi all, <br />
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I’m working on a comic that, like <em>Watchmen</em>, pretty much exclusively uses the nine-panel grid or variations of it. I was wondering if anyone knows whether <em>Watchmen</em>, certainly the first to popularize this grid, was the first to use it to such a degree? There must be earlier examples, even of single pages using the grid, but I’m unfortunately not well-versed in comics before the eighties. Basically, I’m wondering if—much as this comic, <em>The Seeds,</em> is clearly drawing on a lineage to <em>Watchmen</em>—if <em>Watchmen</em> was visually establishing its own lineage, much as it does metatextually and thematically, and what that lineage is, exactly. <br />
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Any insight would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.<br />
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Best,<br />
Aidan</div>
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<div class="matchFont">Aidan Diamond<br />
Ph.D. Candidate | Teaching Assistant
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<div dir="auto">Comparative Media and Culture<br />
University of Southern California</div>
<div dir="auto">aidandia@usc.edu </div>
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