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When you look at a smudged panel, you are looking at the artist’s physical struggle. Those black smears under a character's eyes aren't just shadows; they are exhaustion bleeding into the paper. The dirty fingers of the protagonist aren't a lack of cleanup; they are a narrative device. world of smudge comics better
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