tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post6551120364623151896..comments2024-03-27T05:22:27.604-05:00Comments on Eddie Campbell: Eddie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-75529913406464709012008-10-30T22:22:00.000-05:002008-10-30T22:22:00.000-05:00That last point about imagination is an apt one Sp...That last point about imagination is an apt one Spacedlaw.<BR/><BR/>Lately, the coveted purist in me has had mixed feelings about people wanting to get into the story-telling medium of comics. On one hand, Im heartened that this method of story-telling is being brought to the surface of our culture... and on the other, I'm a little grated that some think of it as an 'opportunity' to be gotten into... like the stock-market.<BR/><BR/>Like straight prose, I think one has to be an avid 'reader' of the medium, then perhaps, catch it's bug & become a novelist, rather than expecting to view it from the outside (like someone looking into the monkey cage at the zoo) - and then deciding there's money to be made in being a monkey-catcher.<BR/><BR/>Anyway...<BR/><BR/>-Bobby.NBobby.Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11494573597598152422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-79750750348270330672008-10-30T05:23:00.000-05:002008-10-30T05:23:00.000-05:00Last time I was in Paris, I walked into my favouri...Last time I was in Paris, I walked into my favourite comics store there to find a debate about learning how to do comics (I think it all stemmed from a contest and what type of things were most likely to win a prize or not) and the store owner was telling something I have heard often before, which is while there are tons of very good artists around - with or without specialized training - the often missing element was good scenarists, good story tellers. Because of the high and most immediately visible graphic element, people would tend to forget that comics are in fact books and so should tell a story. And they will not be successful unless the story is a good one. <BR/><BR/>Incidentally, the guy also said that comics were discovered (!) to be excellent for one's imagination as the reader has to reconstruct what happens between the vignettes.spacedlawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12462723005560128474noreply@blogger.com