NP: [Short] Story Time

[alice wellintown]

I hope we do get to see a GN of P.


On Sunday, September 15, 2013, Rev'd Seventy-Six wrote:

> "Does size matter" is, in FAQ, exactly my infantile preoccupation of
> late, re: comix. (Which influenced P. in a junk culture way, obv., but
> further utility of the medium seems of little interest to the man.
> Zack Snyder's picture for every page is as close to a P graphic novel
> as we're likely to ever see.)
>
> In ch. 14 of Eddie Campbell's 'How To Be An Artist', he remarks,
> "Pedants may demand a literal reading of the words [graphic novel]....
> They'll want to subdivide it, as though a 'novel' has a prescribed
> weight, into 'novella' and 'novelette', with a disregard for the
> origins of these words." While a fair point, I find myself in rare &
> reluctant agreement with Dave Sim, in that it takes an avg. of 500
> comic pages to achieve the same degree of wholly immersive
> complexity...
>
> --
> http://posthistoricpress.blogspot.com/
>
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