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<p>Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather consider the rotoscoped animations of Joel Haver, and take the opportunity to talk about how comedy operates dynamics or dialectics of expectation and discovery in order to arrive at a realization of&#8230;something.</p>
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<h2>Joel Haver&#8217;s Animations</h2>
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<h2>Further Reading</h2>
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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping">&#8220;Rotoscoping&#8221;</a> on Wikipedia</li>
<li><a href="https://amzn.to/3keVYDj"><em>Understanding Comics</em></a> by Scott McCloud</li>
<li><em>The Lord of the Rings</em> dir. Ralph Bakshi: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077869/">IMDb</a></li>
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