Here's a really cool page for you to take a look at if you have a spare minute or two (and I know you do):
Exercises in Style.
I ran across this site about a year ago and dredged it up from the dim recesses of memory as I've been reading about (tangenitally) and thinking about (indirectly) comic books and visual narrative.
Check it out.
Exercises in Style.
I ran across this site about a year ago and dredged it up from the dim recesses of memory as I've been reading about (tangenitally) and thinking about (indirectly) comic books and visual narrative.
Check it out.
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and on the back it says: BIG BRAINS NEED FEEDING.
i am walking the perimeter, in case you were wondering what i meant by patrol.
you know the will eisner on visual art, right.
i met Eisner once before he died. at this
place called jack's stone crabs, supposed to
be a big Miami mob hangout int he 1950's.
lucky and lansky were said to eat there regularly.
pete hamill and I took the great man to lunch.
that was when he told me the story Michael
Chabon turned into Kavalier and Clay.
He also left me with the idea, which I never been
able to get out of my head, that the Stations of
the Cross were a comic strip serial.
As a Catholic, I really felt strangely victorious that night. But I'm not a Catholic. I'm a Buddhaberger betweeen two slices of Jesus bread. Fuck I'm just lost.
SPAIN teaches a course on visual narratives at New School. For all of his background as a tough ass biker, SPAIN is remarkably classical in his approach?
My best to Sophie, and to you, Drago
Cutting myself off from her friendship easily
the dumbest thing I have ever done on this site.
[Edited on Aug 09, 2005 4:47PM]