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Breathtaking View 2
My previous post about using words instead of images (borrowing an example from Ben Towle) was a bit of a throwaway post, a brief thought that I did not elaborate. Thanks to some of my insightful commenters, I am forced to give more thought to my post.
The point of my original post (almost completely unsaid) is that in comics we tend to weight our use of text to sound and narration, but text can be used for visual and descriptive purposes in place of, as part of, or as supplements to images. Towle lamented not being able to leave “breathtaking view” as it appeared in his thumbnails and instead having to actually draw a cityscape from an aerial viewpoint.
While not a perfect example, I think it can be a useful one. If the “breathtaking view” is important information to convey, does the drawing do it justice? I would
(READ ON...)Beanworld is back
Larry Marder’s long missed Beanworld comic is back with a story at the MySpace Dark Horse Presents. If you are not familiar, Beanworld was a comic from back in the black and white indy days that features a very closed world. Marder did a lot with a limited set of characters, settings, and objects. This [...]
(READ ON...)More text in pictures
Austin Kleon must have been channeling each other, as we both posted yesterday about “show v tell” and text labels. Check out his post.
I love his two panel example on yellow paper. It’s a great example words saying what images cannot say in as easy a manner.
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(READ ON...)Toussaint at the Quarterly Conversation
The latest Quarterly Conversation has an interview with Belgian novelist Jean-Philippe Toussaint, who happens to be one of my favorite contemporary authors (though I seem to have only posted about him once):
MR: Critics comment on your interest in the minutiae of daily experience. Do you feel that you have a particular interest in minutiae?
JPT: What [...]
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