Comments on: Right to Left http://madinkbeard.com/blog/archives/right-to-left { Derik Badman's Writing on Comics (mostly) } Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:49:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: DerikB http://madinkbeard.com/blog/archives/right-to-left/comment-page-1#comment-145911 DerikB Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:49:07 +0000 http://madinkbeard.com/blog/?p=1379#comment-145911 I just used the alias attached to my source of information. Personal brand management is important though. I just used the alias attached to my source of information. Personal brand management is important though.

]]> By: Myk(x) http://madinkbeard.com/blog/archives/right-to-left/comment-page-1#comment-145893 Myk(x) Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:35:42 +0000 http://madinkbeard.com/blog/?p=1379#comment-145893 One thing this has taught me is that I need to sort out my aliases. I really love that second example that you posted. It´s also interesting that he has at times items overlap throughout the panels, but not all the items in those panels. Like the moon and the cloud in the lower half of page four. One thing this has taught me is that I need to sort out my aliases.

I really love that second example that you posted. It´s also interesting that he has at times items overlap throughout the panels, but not all the items in those panels. Like the moon and the cloud in the lower half of page four.

]]> By: DerikB http://madinkbeard.com/blog/archives/right-to-left/comment-page-1#comment-145860 DerikB Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:37:50 +0000 http://madinkbeard.com/blog/?p=1379#comment-145860 Andre: I don't have either of the Things comics. I'd love to see a good example (or a reference to one that I can track down). Jean: I love your description of reading Ninja and knowing if you are going the right way. The thing about Chippendale's stuff is he has to tell you to read the comic in that snaking manner, there are generally no visual clues to get/force the reader to right backwards. Andre: I don’t have either of the Things comics. I’d love to see a good example (or a reference to one that I can track down).

Jean: I love your description of reading Ninja and knowing if you are going the right way.

The thing about Chippendale’s stuff is he has to tell you to read the comic in that snaking manner, there are generally no visual clues to get/force the reader to right backwards.

]]> By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Nov. 25, 2008: Almost physically painful http://madinkbeard.com/blog/archives/right-to-left/comment-page-1#comment-145856 Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Nov. 25, 2008: Almost physically painful Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:19:51 +0000 http://madinkbeard.com/blog/?p=1379#comment-145856 [...] sequence from the comic, ©2008 Joseph Lambert. Link via Derik Badman, who comments on some of the story’s formalist [...] [...] sequence from the comic, ©2008 Joseph Lambert. Link via Derik Badman, who comments on some of the story’s formalist [...]

]]> By: jean c. http://madinkbeard.com/blog/archives/right-to-left/comment-page-1#comment-145817 jean c. Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:42:49 +0000 http://madinkbeard.com/blog/?p=1379#comment-145817 these are similar to Brian Chippendale's work (I know you've talked about Ninja here before); except (to me) these read much more easily than his stuff, since there are more cues for the reversal. I really like Ninja, but the only way you realize that you're reading the panels in the wrong directions is when it makes absolutely no sense, as opposed to when you're reading in the right direction and you can just piece together the sense that is there... with Brian's work I think that changing your reading direction and habits is part of stepping into his way of viewing the world. (derik I got your email & am writing back; I just got done with a huge amount of work & a deadline yesterday, so now I have some space to breathe, relax, send long-overdue replies etc.!) these are similar to Brian Chippendale’s work (I know you’ve talked about Ninja here before); except (to me) these read much more easily than his stuff, since there are more cues for the reversal. I really like Ninja, but the only way you realize that you’re reading the panels in the wrong directions is when it makes absolutely no sense, as opposed to when you’re reading in the right direction and you can just piece together the sense that is there… with Brian’s work I think that changing your reading direction and habits is part of stepping into his way of viewing the world.

(derik I got your email & am writing back; I just got done with a huge amount of work & a deadline yesterday, so now I have some space to breathe, relax, send long-overdue replies etc.!)

]]> By: Andrei http://madinkbeard.com/blog/archives/right-to-left/comment-page-1#comment-145774 Andrei Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:04:42 +0000 http://madinkbeard.com/blog/?p=1379#comment-145774 I remember some really effective use of that "reverse-L" composition in Swamp Thing, (vol. 2, I think just a couple of issues before Alan Moore took over)--and I think I can recall something similar in Man-Thing. I don't know why I'm thinking specifically of 70s/80s swamp monster comics, but that's what came to mind. Unless I'm confusing them, and both examples I remember come from Swamp Thing. I remember some really effective use of that “reverse-L” composition in Swamp Thing, (vol. 2, I think just a couple of issues before Alan Moore took over)–and I think I can recall something similar in Man-Thing. I don’t know why I’m thinking specifically of 70s/80s swamp monster comics, but that’s what came to mind. Unless I’m confusing them, and both examples I remember come from Swamp Thing.

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