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April 25, 2015
chipperwhale:
The messages in Jermaine were wonderful life...
The messages in Jermaine were wonderful life lessons. Brandon and Jesse did an amazing job on this episode~ I want to rewatch it!
adamwarrencomics:
Two very different approaches to a...
Two very different approaches to a “slow-motion” action scene, one from Kenichi Sonoda’s Gunsmith Cats (top) and the other from Shirow Masamune’s Appleseed Databook (bottom); both techniques have been huge influences on my own action storytelling.
Sonoda uses a lower panel count and big, open, at times background-free panels for his slo-mo depiction of Rally’s wacky reloading stunt with the dropped and kicked-up magazine. Some folks decry open, “easy” panels like these, but I think they suit the action flow far, faaaar better than, say, bande-desinée-style panels laden with full, detailed backgrounds. (Gotta say, never did care for B-D‘s often literalistic approach to panel backgrounds; I prefer a more flexible approach, myself.)
Shirow, by contrast, uses a flurry of small, dense panels for his own slow-motion sequence. Arguably a similar effect, but achieved by very different means. Problem is, his storytelling approaches can be tricky to emulate, thanks to a maxim I think of as “Shirow Does S**t You Just Can’t Do.” (To see what I mean, try using tiny figures in wee panels for an action scene like the famed Appleseed vol.4 knife fight; odds are, you can’t get even remotely the same energy and kineticism as he achieves.)
April 24, 2015
How's 8house being collected? Will I miss anything if I wait for the trades? (Also jermaine was incredible dude, and I'm psyched for island, thanks for all the great work)
I think each story line will be in a trade of it’s own.
4 issue each I think.–at least to start with. I don’t think you’ll miss anything if you just get the trades.We’re still figuring out what the back matter is gonna be– but I think it’ll relate to the stories and be collected.
And thanks a lot. Jermaine was a blast to work on. & Island ooof lots to do but I think it’ll be fun.
April 23, 2015
I dug the McCloud Inkstuds interview even though I was hoping you'd shit talk The Sculptor:) I'm interested to know if you have any thoughts on McCloud, or more specifically The Sculptor and how it's getting a lot of acclaim and media coverage that it may
Cool, I’m glad you liked the interview. I remember it being fun. I hadn’t read The Sculptor when I did that interview. I had a copy around here that Simon Roy borrowed.
I read the start of it & was frustrated with the main character. He seemed to only put value on people who were successful artist. There’s a scene where he talks about a nightmare where people are falling into an abyss without ever realizing their artistic dreams– It seemed like a shit way to view other humans.
It’s cool to succeed on some level at being an artist, but I don’t think any sane person would argue that it’s more important than being a good person or just living a good life. –maybe that was the point of the story –maybe he grows by the end, but it’s hard to care when I already didn’t like him & regarded his problems as not real problems. I think hes like 25 and used to be a famous sculptor. Maybe that’s a problem?, it’s gotta be hard on art to have acclaim too early.
Anyway, I should actually finish the thing. I would assume McCloud’s whole deal would be an inclusive bringing people into making art, with his Understanding comics books. I do like Scott & think he does interesting stuff. I I dunno if I clicked with everything in Understanding comics but reading it always made me wanna think about the art form in new ways. and I know it was a big entry point for a lot of people (plus McCloud said nice things about Marian when I met him in Europe– that tends to win me over)
I dug the McCloud Inkstuds interview even though I was hoping you'd shit talk The Sculptor:) I'm interested to know if you have any thoughts on McCloud, or more specifically The Sculptor and how it's getting a lot of acclaim and media coverage that it may
Cool, I’m glad you liked the interview. I remember it being fun. I hadn’t read The Sculptor when I did that interview. I had a copy around here that Simon Roy borrowed.
I read the start of it & was frustrated with the main character. He seemed to only put value on people who were successful artist. There’s a scene where he talks about a nightmare where people are falling into an abyss without ever realizing their artistic dreams– It seemed like a shit way to view other humans.
It’s cool to succeed on some level at being an artist, but I don’t think any sane person would argue that it’s more important than being a good person or just living a good life. –maybe that was the point of the story –maybe he grows by the end, but it’s hard to care when I already didn’t like him & regarded his problems as not real problems. I think hes like 25 and used to be a famous sculptor. Maybe that’s a problem?, it’s gotta be hard on art to have acclaim too early.
Anyway, I should actually finish the thing. I would assume McCloud’s whole deal would be an inclusive bringing people into making art, with his Understanding comics books. I do like Scott & think he does interesting stuff. I I dunno if I clicked with everything in Understanding comics but reading it always made me wanna think about the art form in new ways. and I know it was a big entry point for a lot of people (plus McCloud said nice things about Marian when I met him in Europe– that tends to win me over)
Have you read the T2 adaptation by Klaus Janson?
I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a copy. Man, I wish I could get all the NOW comics Terminator books. Those were nicely weird.
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