brain snack
"If anything, what comics are most related to is a combination of graphic design and poetry. Because poetry is about compression of time and it’s about rhythm, and comics are very connected to those two ideas. Almost everything in comics is about how you choose to deal with time and exactly how much you control a visual rhythm on the page. And graphic design, because obviously you’re trying to move around images that are shapes. You’re tying to move eyes around, trying to teach people how to move along the page, how to speed things up, slow things down. It’s all very much a graphic language as opposed to film, which all takes place on one flat picture plane in which the story unfolds over actual time - it is clearly a real visual language based entirely on motion. They have areas where they cross over, of course. I think the big reason people connect film to comics is because of the storyboards people often use to make film."
-- SETH
-- SETH