GRGR(10) - Plasticman

[Doug Millison]

>> (206-7) Four-color Plasticman goes oozing out a keyhole, around a corner
>> and up through piping that leads to a sink in the mad Nazi scientist's
>>lab, out of
>> whose faucet Plas's head now, blank carapaced eyes and unplastic jaw, is
>>just  >>  >> emerging.

At 11:03 AM +1100 9/25/99, rj wrote:
>[snip] Pynchon narrates the comic strip
>sequence as though it were a movie, or indeed, a real event in time [snip]

Or, indeed, narrating just as if this were a sequence of comic book or
comic strip panels. I don't know enough about the history of this medium to
say whether or not comic strips came before movies. It is true that comic
books in the past 30 years or so (perhaps before, I'm not a comics
specialist) have been influenced by cinematography, especially the Japanese
_manga_,  although that's a two-way street, too, I believe. I saw several
'60s films by the director Masumura Yasuzo in a retrospective last year,
where he used lots of low-angle and other odd perspective shots that very
much resemble _manga_, which or course were also flourishing at that time.

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