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 reading for meaning at the panel-to-panel level.

The six panel repetitions are a page of all black panels, a page of all white panels, and a page of the same image of a tree repeated in six panels. Go read.

Tags: braiding, criticism, groensteen, metacriticism

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