PBS show on comics / graphic novels
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sasha_featherGraphic novel recs from PBS "articulate show"
"Swallow me whole". By Nate Powell.
Scott McCloud's Understanding comix trio. Comics allow you to take the time you need. Acquiring the understanding for yourself is 80 percent of the task. The art is the easy part.
Gene Yang American Born Chinese.
Lauren Weinstein. Figure out how to stop the viewer when you need to. How to make them suffer and how to make them ecstatic.
McCloud: comics have a way of intruding. Harder to make it transportive. There's so much to remind you of the form. The seams show. With the change of an artist (in superhero comics), we become award of the artifice, so instead of seeing your favorite character, you're now seeing art of your favorite character.
A gutter is the break b/n the panels.
Weinstein: the comic should be accessible to ppl who aren't comics junkies.
We are hard-wired to receive information visually. Think cave paintings of Lasceaux and Egyptian tombs. Pre-colombian codex (Aztecs).
McCloud: there is a universal visual vocabulary, think stick people.
The comics code made comics more fantastical. Superheroes saved comics, but it's strange that they are now synonymous with comics. "It's like if 95% of movies were Westerns". --Nate Powell
Also mentioned or shown:
Boxers and Saints.
Josh O'neil "Little Nemo" newspaper comics
March by Nate Powell and others
Persepolis
"Swallow me whole". By Nate Powell.
Scott McCloud's Understanding comix trio. Comics allow you to take the time you need. Acquiring the understanding for yourself is 80 percent of the task. The art is the easy part.
Gene Yang American Born Chinese.
Lauren Weinstein. Figure out how to stop the viewer when you need to. How to make them suffer and how to make them ecstatic.
McCloud: comics have a way of intruding. Harder to make it transportive. There's so much to remind you of the form. The seams show. With the change of an artist (in superhero comics), we become award of the artifice, so instead of seeing your favorite character, you're now seeing art of your favorite character.
A gutter is the break b/n the panels.
Weinstein: the comic should be accessible to ppl who aren't comics junkies.
We are hard-wired to receive information visually. Think cave paintings of Lasceaux and Egyptian tombs. Pre-colombian codex (Aztecs).
McCloud: there is a universal visual vocabulary, think stick people.
The comics code made comics more fantastical. Superheroes saved comics, but it's strange that they are now synonymous with comics. "It's like if 95% of movies were Westerns". --Nate Powell
Also mentioned or shown:
Boxers and Saints.
Josh O'neil "Little Nemo" newspaper comics
March by Nate Powell and others
Persepolis
Nifty
Date: 2021-09-04 08:13 pm (UTC)The show's created by the Articulate Foundation, which hosts many episodes. I suspect the one you watched was Drawing Meaning From Life and they host a transcript at that link (I can only hope the transcript is cleaned up from the captions, which have many errors.)