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Under Lock & Skeleton Key layers architecture with mouthwatering food in an ode to classic locked-room mysteries.Īn impossible crime. ![]() ![]() “Ilan Manouach’s ONEPIECE proposes to shift the understanding of digital comics from a qualitative examination of the formal possibilities of digital comics to a quantitative reappraisal of ‘comics as Big Data’.” ![]() Manouach’s piece came about because of the “profusion of available online content and the rampant digitisation of the comics industry” which “challenges the state-of-the-art of comics craftsmanship”, according to his publisher. 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