3 posts tagged “comics”
I'm watching Yu Gi Oh: The Abridged Series right now and laughing my ass off. Is so damn funny.
I just finished my exams... finally I will be able to go out somewhere or actually read something I want to... My organization skills sucked so I didn't have much free time. (more like I wasted them...)
Comics I bought this week.
- Wonder Woman 21: since Gail Simone started writing. The character is a hit or miss for me but I love how Gail writes.
- Sky doll 2: There are only 3 issues as the series gets out with a really slow frequency but I am fan of Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa art .I practically waited YEARS to finally read this comic as European editions of comics have become harder and harder to find.
- Wet Moon volume 3: I was just able to get volume 3. I love Ross Campell art and I am really glad he is being getting more attention lately.
Books:
I just started reading a Clergyman's daughter.
The name of the Rose has been on my waiting list like forever... I already have it now I need some time.
In this year I became an adict to Terry Pratchet works... I never actually knew many of his works were available in Mexico until I stumbled with them at the library, now I am trying to get every book my income and time lets me.
Also something kind of related with the above... tv tropes... just ruined my life... I cannot stop browsing that site
Comics have to be both writing and art, that’s kind of obvious. Words by itself are only prose; art without sequence is not a comic. Lines can be blurry to the point you can have a comic without words, but still, if the drawing have a sequence that tells a story can still be a comic, writing is just implicit on this..
I divide
comic books in 3 types:
- Ones that are read by the writing. (both narration and dialog)
- Ones that are read by the art.
- Ones that are read both by the art and writing.
Both elements never disappear in the 3 categories but can take a different importance in each one. In type number one the words are the star of the show: you follow the dialogue or the narrator to understand the story. Drawing can be ugly and still you can like what you are reading, because drawing serves to help understanding the story. Many issues of Sandman can be an example of this type, it has different persons that draw and some may not be everybody’s cup of tea but you are following the story with the words most of the time. Another different example can be the Webcomic Questionable Content, in which you get to understand the character by what they speak mostly.
In type two, the art takes a step forward; words are taken to the minimum or are sometimes inexistent. To get the story you need to follow character physical actions, scenery and background and even the change of colors.
Into the the third type to fully enjoy the experience of its reading you need to pay equal attention to writing and art. Characters will speak one thing and act another at the same and you can get two different stories if you take each other by separate, but only a fully cohesive by following both.Fables can be a good example, instead of relying in narration preffers to "show" rather than to tell, and both Bill Willinghan(author and writer) and Mark Buckinham (regular penciler) too work in perfect understanding.
While some authors only write their best in only type, other can be more versatile feel comfortable in any one. Kinds of readers can also be spotted by these criteria; there are the ones that read the words first, the ones that only read the drawing and the ones that read both.
blood bukkake for the win? O.o
*Note: if don't know what bukkake is, don't google it, I a'm sayingh it for your own mental good.
