All PostsContent Topic: breakdowns
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Translation: Poison River and the vertiginous ellipsis
Up today at the French comics site du9 (which has an English section) is my English translation of a French article by David Turgeon called “Poison River and the vertiginous ellipsis.” I’d be wanting to work on some French translating, and I’d had that article saved to blog about since it was published. So it was a natural fit.
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Comics by Allan Haverholm
When I met Allan Haverholm at this year’s MoCCA festival, I knew he had some new comics for the show from following him on Twitter, but I hadn’t seen much of his work. It’s always a bonus to meet someone in comics and to actually like their work. I bought the full suite of Allan’s comics and I was not disappointed. The works I got from Allan all share conceptual connection to music, providing an intriguing way to think about comics.
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Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi
Hayashi, Seiichi. Red Colored Elegy. Trans. by Taro Nettleton. Drawn & Quarterly, 2008. Hardcover. 236 p. $24.95. 9781897299401. By nature comics are elliptical, an art of omission: from iconic art styles to the gaps in time and space created by the panel breakdowns. For the majority of comics, the reader’s work at filling in the [...]
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Cold Heat Specials
Jon Vermilyea and Frank Santoro. Cold Heat Special #1. 11″ x 16″, 16 p. $3. Dash Shaw and Frank Santoro. Cold Heat Special #3. 5″ x 8.5″, 16 p. $3. Chris Cornwell. The Chunky Gnars: A Chocolate Gun Tribute. 7.125″ x 5.5″, 16p. $3. Posts following up on my best of 2007 list seems to [...]
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Film style changes
But it’s rare to find an American ready to keep the camera still and steady and to let the actors sculpt the action in continuous time, saving the cuts to underscore a pivot or heightening of the drama. Now nearly every American filmmaker is inclined to frame close, cut fast, and track that camera endlessly. [...]
