Most comics are drawn, be it with pencil, pen, tablet, or whatever tool’s to hand, but My Cardboard Life is different. Its main characters are the cardboard Colin and the paper Pauline, recreated hundreds of times in distinct collage panels, never reused. In the words of the author, Philippa Rice, in her FAQ: No, each panel uses new pieces of… Read more →
As is now becoming a habit, I’d like to point out a few interesting details in Mike Carey and Peter Gross’s The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity. If you noticed them, I congratulate you and feel free to ignore this blog! If you are interested in other elements of The Unwritten, vol 1, check out kkutnak’s post on Fonts.… Read more →
The world of Watchmen is a complex one, full of tiny details that are easy to miss when you get caught up in the plot and the action. In particular, I have noticed a lot of Greco-Roman references, some more subtle than others. They are more frequent than one might expect and I have here included a few… Read more →
Panels act like the lens of a camera, limiting the reader’s access to the diegetic world of the narrative. Mostly they are taken for granted as basic shapes that serve to separate individual moments and views. Sometimes, however, an artist will subvert traditional paneling and give the divisions between the images a whole new meaning. This happens in Eisner’s A Contract with God on… Read more →