GRGR(10) - Plasticman

[David Morris]

>From: 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.

Visual media folk will tell you about the "story board."  It is a comic 
strip, designed to sell a video concept.  It's most prevalent venue is 
advertising, but the movies may rival it's usefulness, especially in 
DisneyLand.

One Picture >$> One Thousand Words

A sequence, with narration, may be priceless...

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