All PostsContent Topic: braiding
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Parille on Acme Novelty 19
Ken Parille’s post about the red circle in Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Library #19 is a great example of braiding in comics and a brilliant post in itself. Read, enjoy. Ware has often compared comics to music, and in ANL 19 Ware uses this red circle as a kind of visual leitmotif, a “musical theme” [...]
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Metronome by Veronique Tanaka
Tanaka, Véronique. Metronome. NBM, 2008. 68p, black and white hardcover, $13.95. 9781561635269. Metronome is an unusual and interesting comic, but it’s not as unusual as the back copy on the book would have you believe: “Just when you thought that nobody could create something new in the comic medium, here comes Metronome – a 64-page [...]
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Braiding 1
At the new Thought Balloons blog, Charles Hatfield and Craig Fischer discuss Groensteen’s System of Comics (my old review). Fischer provides an excellent example of Groensteen’s “braiding” (tressage) in Jason’s “Hey Wait…”: Across the multiframe of the book, the motif of six-panel repetition appears and reappears at central moments, creating a series that transcends the [...]
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Planting Sound
Write sounds into the background of scenes, setting them up for fuller presence later. If a train becomes important late in the story, mention the wail of a distant train early in the screenplay. This sort of auditory planting quietly strengthens the structure of the story in your reader’s mind. -David Bordwell summarizing Amos Poe. [...]
