Panels
Most of the camera roll on my phone is either dead animals I find out in the world, trucks I cruise real slow by in parking lots, or comic panels I want to keep close forever. Here’s the latest, from Old Man Logan, by Andrea Sorrentino and Jeff Lemire:
The layers of this moment, right? This is Logan getting shot, which is a very kinetic story moment, but of course comic book panels aren’t animated gifs, they’re static, so the artist has to suggest ‘motion&…
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Jun 28, 2020 02:17PM
Hey, this made me think -- when I was reading the NetGalley edition of The Only Good Indians, a lot of pages seemed to utilize the page break in order to build tension when you turn the page the same way a comic book would. Was that on purpose or just a coincidence?
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I mean . . . sort of on purpose? been writing comic scripts lately, and comics are of course all about that page-turn, so I have to imagine that's infected by fiction writing at some level. cool you're seeing that. thanks.
Stephen wrote: "I mean . . . sort of on purpose? been writing comic scripts lately, and comics are of course all about that page-turn, so I have to imagine that's infected by fiction writing at some level. cool yo..."I don't think I've ever seen (or at least actively noticed) that in a novel before. I loved it. It definitely was way more effective than I would've expected.
