Every so often, not too often yield to an old habit, I forget my pessimism of default on the craft of comics, and try to return a player. A simple reader. Just to be clear as to what I was some twenty years ago.
Yeah, we want to be a player? I see myself as a child, with a number of Corriere dei Ragazzi in hand. Okay, not really the child, adolescent. A castaway on a boat lands on an island in the South Seas. Scene from Lost , palm trees and endless beaches. At that moment I was really with him on the beach. And then at any other time, I followed him to every page. At 6 pages per week (as in previous years to rrivava also to 2 pages per week). The result? "A suivre " or "Continue" ... seven days, same time, same channel. Then the same newspapers, the same newspaper. What cool.
Years later I see the same newspaper. The beach is beautiful, the palm trees are 4, the 'setting of Lost no guesses. Oh well, the memory was better.
Yeah, but that was before. Before begin drawing with the method, before focus to do it in a coherent and continuous . Before you even think of making it come away from your job.
Before you start to grind tens of pages per month, curandotele as if they were your pets. Before you learn how difficult reaching the final, in which everything must be answered, and each extra page or a page is too less to explain. When you learn the methods that use smart writers, the ones that allow you to get to the last page and everything goes fine, no rush. Today all this
entered my blood now. I recognize eye fixes, editorial interventions, the dead spots of the stories, I can not short to avoid testing the comics that I read with a critical eye. And if I see a stingy I grimaced. If an 'inking is completely ineffective on the face is the smile Joker. If the designer has copied photographs, well, it really is too obvious (though until recently drew in different ways). If there is a background, if a prospect has all of his personal rules unknown to us mortals, in short, everything that I ruin the pleasure of reading. But then life is not just for Milton Caniff , comics like everything else in the world evolve, so I'm keeping the complaints in the drawing, with some effort I can not recall the artist who supercritical c 'is in me, and I read a cartoon in one breath.
Or rather, I try. Why at this point I struggle with a typical habit circulating today in comics, whether they are detectives, mice and ducks or superheroes in tights.
dilation. Many things I agree, some narrative tricks too, but a history of stretch, was for 20, 100 or 300 pages, not the straps.
Example: Guy walks into a room, greeting, asks how it goes to the landlord. Amena conversation and moving slowly coming to the door of the first room. A page and a half in which nothing happened. It was not said anything relevant to the story. But I read two pages in the meantime. I tell myself that I'm wrong, that my mind has deceived me, the story may not be so expanded. Then go back and look with the method. Soundings page. Guy comes in and plays a sticker on the door. Two vignette that arrives Caio preparing to open the door. Vignette three opens, and gets a look of surprise. Four, we see the host and master of the house that they said goodbye. Or rather, the newcomer who asks a question of no importance. The landlord, Tom, answered in five. In six Caius enters smiling reply.
You wonder why. We can not answer that question definitely be a venial sin: "They pay me to page, and I dilate this story so far as I gain more." No, basically I realize that churn out a good idea every week or every month can be tiring (though a reasonable doubt remains, of course). I realized that seeing how the stories of Startrek on television became more and more verbose, and ending with the endless chatter between Janeway and Seven of Nine in Voyager ( noooiaaaaaaa ). Where in Startrek The Next Generation the writers had invented (or only applies to) the story editing, weaving in an episode that is the more minor events which by themselves would not be sufficient to hold an episode. But this had happened years before ... other writers, more textures and themes to draw from.
Perhaps the authors feel that in the comics the influence of Graphic Novel American? The romanzoni 300-page comic book that had so much success? Well, no, to the length aprte those made sense so long, there was so much to tell.
Or the problem is bigger and covers all the literature in general? Maybe that d Ilatia is not just a problem of comics?
Take a hardcover book of 500 pages. One at random, Italian or foreign. He may have within it a scene like this:
" Pablo put his hand on the handle of brass-colored ash blond, brown smoke, forged by the masters of Senegovia Atlantic in 1918, at the end of the great World War, resistance is felt the touch of his fingers long and pale, covered with sparse hair . Exerted a slight pressure above method and that object at that moment seemed so strange and obscure. Increased the pressure feeling it give way, and he took a breath continuing to press until you hear a sound dry and penetrating that hurt the ears, almost breaking that eternal moment of silence when it was penetrated by a few minutes. He pushed again, and the door opened, creaking imperceptibly as a rebel trying to support one last attack, or resist the charge of the 600 (...)."
Do not look for it around, I invented now. More than ten lines of text (though I think once the publishers to pay the amount of words) to say nothing about anything, except that the potagonista Oung the fingers, pale and hairy (trouble if the reader does not discover this particular be careful!). Literature? Bho.
course. This makes it easier to write a novel and get to 700 pages. But where Tolkien 500 pages employed to describe the battle of the ditch Elm , now you can find written, "They left at dawn for the battle, and returned in the evening, winners." So what's in this 900-page? Here's what I think when I read about young people entering who think a trilogy ...
O comics with people knocking at the door ...
Okay, that's just because every time I have to write a comic myself, I fight with the storyboard to be able to do everything at the right time. E 'in these moments that I realize how difficult it is to be a writer .
Page to Anjce # 6, forthcoming.
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