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Spuk (Thesen gegen den Fruhling) by Niklaus Ruegg
Rüegg, Niklaus. SPUK (Thesen gegen den Frühling). Zurich: Edition Fink, 2004. ISBN 9783906086743.
Almost all comics are figurative (that is, representational). More than that, the greater cultural awareness of comics is through characters. A great swath of the field (comic strips, comic books, manga, bd) is covered by the neverending (or nearly neverending) narratives of characters. Other than soap operas, no other narrative form has that same endless character-ography. In a popular sense, comics are the characters: Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Charlie Brown, Garfield, Tintin, etc. Decisively non-character comics are rare. Most might fall into the category abstract (non-figurative) comics (e.g. most of Andrei Molotiu’s work, Trondheim’s Bleu, “Event” by Anders Nilsen in Mome, or others you could read about).
(READ ON...)Breathtaking View
Over at his blog, Ben Towle, in discussing layouts and finishes asks of a particular panel:
Now, why can’t I just write “breathtaking view” and be done with it instead of having to draw hundreds of buildings!?
I’d hazard that he could. I’ve posted a few times about comic artists using words as a descriptive part of [...]
Rereading Kawabata
The publication histories of both A Thousand Cranes and Sound of the Mountain resemble the erratic, scattered pattern Kawabata set with Snow Country, though they do not stretch over as long a period of time or undergo as many major revisions. But the technique of evolving narration–with one segment suggesting, through the “remnant of feeling” [...]
(READ ON...)Love in the Western World
My wife recently rearranged a large portion of our books so that they are on shelves by color. It’s not the best system for finding a specific book (granted, I’ve had some of these books long enough that I do know off the top of my head what color many of them are), but by [...]
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