Shorts
I’m back from vacation, catching up on Things Change, and trying to get some writing done. Until then (Monday, I promise), a few shorts:
a) WHAT VANISHING POINT? SOME REALLY BRIEF THOUGHTS ON COMICS AND PERSPECTIVE — Austin Kleon on perspective in comics. Worth a read.
b) Remedial Comics > flow — A number of close readings of page layouts with a cool Flash interface to look at various parts of the page in isolation (figure silhouettes, text only, etc). (link thanks to Neil Cohn)
c) Houdini: The Handcuff King by Jason Lutes and Nick Bertozzi (Hyperion, 2007) — Based on the back matter, I’m assuming this is a young adult book, and, while well done, I found it rather slim on content and not to my taste. There are about a dozen pages in the book where Houdini is underwater performing his escape that have great layouts/breakdowns. Excellent use of the double page spread and the sense of him dropping into the darkness of the water. Nowhere near the greatness of Lutes’ Berlin.
d) Embrioderies by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon) — Found this at the library, so I checked it out for a quick read on the train home. If this were a photocopied minicomics I’d be fairly impressed. As a hardcover volume from a major publisher, it’s disappointing. More crude than Persepolis visually, the whole book is heavily reliant on the text (lots of people telling stories to each other), leaving most of the images irrelevant.
e) Saw a great show of paintings and little miniatures by Ethan Hayes-Chute while I was on vacation in Maine. Check out his website for some samples. His landscape paintings are minimal, brightly colored, and really fun. It turns out he’s even done some comics. I got one of his artist books that features page after page of drawings of piles of rocks, aptly titled “Piles of Rocks”.
f) I’m going to be at MOCCA this year (Friday night/Saturday). Any else going to be there who reads this?
g) The previous post on Yukiko’s Spinach has gotten a lot of attention, mostly for the comments that ensued. Check it out if you haven’t already.
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