Comments on: Transformative Constraint in the Comics Classroom

By: DerikB

DerikB — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:09:13 +0000

Probably webcomics would be a closer analogue.

By: Bill Randall

Bill Randall — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:21:45 +0000

Ah, Alphaville. Godard’s always been a favorite of mine– he wrote that he saw writing about movies and making them as part of the same act. His video works especially push the idea, as they allow more pliable images. Not sure what an analogue for video in comics would be, though. Minis?

(And I remember someone on TCJ’s old board sketching out a version of Everyman with Charlie Brown as the title character.)

By: DerikB

DerikB — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:59:49 +0000

Thanks, Bill. During the q&a after the actual presentation I ended up talking a bit about the idea of the work as criticism. I read something in a book about Godard’s Alphaville recently discussing his use of the film as film criticism.

The idea with comics deserves some further attention. I have a post started somewhere.

The Lefebvre seemed somehow perfect for Linus. He’s always the philosophical one in Peanuts.

By: Madinkbeard » Art Show in Second Life

Madinkbeard » Art Show in Second Life — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:57:11 +0000

[...] presenting today in Second Life I also put up an art show and talked about the work. Here are some screenshots I took. The avatar [...]

By: Bill Randall

Bill Randall — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:26:05 +0000

I quite like how this came out, especially the Schulz/Lefebvre and the “Reframing” page. It’s funny, these kinds of transformations in comics, even when R. Sikoryak does them, strike me as works of criticism. And there’s probably a Kirby biography waiting to be pieced together from his entire oeuvre, panel-by-panel.