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September 3, 2009 6:08 am

"I didn't do it, I was framed." (sorry, bad jokes are like farts, you can't keep them in and no one's happy when you let them out)

September 2, 2009 11:59 am So you take some photos of a cute girl, run them through a photoshop filter. Then film the pictures, moving the camera about, get it out of focus, in focus, blow some cigarette smoke in front. This is getting boring let's film a car actually moving and rotoscope it. Much quicker than making a real animation. I know an English woman who can almost do an American accent, we could use her, she's cheap. We could call it Moving-a-Camera-Around-a-Comic, maybe they'll swallow it?
September 2, 2009 4:41 am

There's no way I'd pay for that. The only motion comic for me is the interactive one where I turn the pages. I'm no Luddite but who thought this was a good idea? 

September 1, 2009 7:08 am

Other potentially confusing comic book terms:

'Comic' - something unlikely to be funny.

'Prose' - we were told at school that it means the opposite of 'verse' or means an everyday style. But in the world of comics were talking books with lots of words in.

'Photorealistic' - in art school I was told it was a 1970s style of painting, from the US, which aimed at mimicking a photograph. But here we're talking about a realistic style of depiction, probably derived from a photograph.

 'OGN' - Not sure why we need to say 'Original'? I guess there are some fairly unoriginal graphic novels out there.  

'Cartoony' - Nothing to do with Leonardo Da Vinci's Cartoon at the Louvre.

 

 

August 29, 2009 11:19 am I really wanted to like Queen and Country but I couldn't get past the inauthentic use of the language. There are many mistakes which would be too boring to list. I'm generally an Americanophile and don't want to be pedantic but unfortunately it just takes me out of the story. Perhaps British writers get it just as wrong and I wouldn't blame an American for having the same reaction as me. However, I imagine that the British writers are exposed to much more American culture than vice versa and therefore might make less mistakes?
August 29, 2009 3:04 am I keep vacillating between comics based on reality and those based on fantasy. It feels a little schizophrenic but I guess you can see one as representing the waking reality and the other depicting the dream state. Perhaps we need both for a balanced mind?
August 14, 2009 7:21 am LaFuente is a bold choice there. It reminds me of Scott Mccloud/Will Eisner's theory that comic pictures can be just a step away fom writing. It's as if the iconic Spidey head has been abstracted into a pictogram.
August 14, 2009 3:34 am Thank you for mentioning Brian Bolland. He was one of the first comic book artists I knew and is still my touchstone for what good graphic art is. I bought the first 2000AD when I was 7 years old (because I wanted the free gift!) and continued with it through the Cursed Earth story with Bolland and McMahon. Other delights included Dave Gibbons, Alan Davis, Bryan Talbot, Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neil, Carlos Ezquerra, Grant Morrison, Simon Bisley, Garth Ennis etc. Have to admit though, 2000AD isn't up to much these days.
August 8, 2009 4:32 am

As you said, Caravaggio was creating a new realism but other than the Christian symbolism of winged angels etc, I can't see the surreal elements particular to his work. My dreams are normally made up of realistic elements anyway so I suppose there could be a dream-like element to his work. Rather than his iconography/symbolism, it might be the way he places subjects in a dark, infinite space that is akin to my dreams.The more surreal artwork that exists in the world, like Seaguy, seems to me a bit of an artificial way to conjure up the dream-state or to relate to the subconscious. But perhaps people do have Dali-like dreams? Your point about Caravaggio being a like a comic artist of his time does ring true for me, I'd add film-maker to that. The sense of narrative is fundamental to the reading of his work. This year I spent a few months in Rome and every time I returned to the Caravaggio paintings, they seemed to have internally moved. It was like the narrative and movement was so fresh that the back of your head is telling you that this isn't a static object. Anyway, it's so good to have the masters of fine art brought into the arena of comics, keep it up!

August 7, 2009 12:55 pm

It's great to see you highlighting the artists who have an idiosynchratic style. It's a shame that the majority of mainstream books have a bland, homogenous look. I've heard people saying that they like that 'neutral' look since it stops the art 'getting in the way' of the story. Personally, I'd like to see more individual artwork out there with unique characteristics, contributing to the richness of book.