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Finally picked this and Tony Is A Werewolf up at the weekend - outstanding stuff, particularly this. I entirely agree with gumbitch about how clever some of the layouts are. Actually what I'm really obsessed with is how good the pacing of the narration is. One of the things I love in good writing and always strive for is the ability to create an impression of the pace at which something is being said so for example when writing in prose you can leave out punctuation and string things together to create an impression of everything coming out in a breathless rush - or, you can, I think, puts lots, indeed perhaps, some might say, too many, commas, in there. And I'm fascinating in how one can make that work in comics, and what affects you can achieve with it.
Beau & Me seems like a masterclass in this particular skill. It's got an incredibly deft ability to identify very particular moods and then portray them through subtle techniques like the spacing of the words on the page, and tiny little bits of body language.
It is probably the best comic I've ever read produced by someone on this board, and I've enjoyed a lot of comics produced by 'Lithers. You can cut out everything from "produced" onwards if you want to quote that, MacReady. |
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