All PostsA brief quote from James Sturm in an interview with ALA’s (that’s the American Library Association) Booklist:
Booklist: In Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow and The Golem’s Mighty Swing, you produced suspenseful and exciting baseball sequences. What would you tell a student of cartooning who wanted to create the same effect?
Sturm: Try to capture the feel and rhythm of the game and pay attention to its subtleties. Of course, it helps if you like baseball. But I would also recommend looking at Japanese baseball manga. American baseball comics have been pretty bad, always halting and truncated. The Japanese get it right; they let baseball unfold at a leisurely pace.
I may not get to my baseball manga review by next week, but I’ll probably have one of those halting and truncated American comics to review in the meantime.