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Things Change In Print
Now available, the print version of Things Change: The Metamorphoses Comic (that’s my webcomic in case you didn’t know). Thanks to the print-on-demand technology of Lulu.com you can now have your own copy of Things Change Books 1-3. The book is perfect bound, 7.5″ square, and printed in full color. For more information, see the post on my blog.
I made these for a few reasons, including the thrill of a printed copy and so my mom would finally read the whole comic, but one of them is not to make money. A full-color print-on-demand book is, unfortunately, not cheap. The printing quality is quite excellent, the paper is decent, so far the binding is holding up well. All that leads to an expensive product. I considered making a black and white (grayscale) version, but I made too much use of color as a signifying element in many of the
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Composition and Layout in Akira
There’s an analysis of some Akira pages by Josiah Leighton over at his blog Consequentialart’s Sequential Art Class (what a title), which is worth a read. He talks about the use of angled panels to increase the sense of action/movement/chaos and the way eyelines contribute to the effect.
As I’ve been reading about and watching movies [...]
Branigan on Point of View
A few notes from Edward Branigan’s Point of View in the Cinema (Mouton, 1984)
Gerard Genette has observed that a dissymmetry exists within verbal narration. A story may very well be told in words without specifying the place where it happens and whether this place is more or less distant from the place where it is [...]
Kinetic Krigstein
Two panels from “87th Precinct: Blind Man’s Bluff” Four Color #1309 (Dell, 1962) drawn by Bernie Krigstein, reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics edited by Paul Gravett (Running Press, 2008). As usual Krigstein’s work outshines the mediocre stories he has to work with.
I love the kinetic energy in this panel. Krigstein doesn’t [...]
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