Graphic Novelists who should not be missed: Part Two

Joe Sacco.

Graphic Novelists who should not be missed: Part One

Art Spiegelman

The Loose Edges of Storytelling

Acting, animating, drawing, singing, writing, filming and dancing. All of these methods and more have been used fluidly over centuries and centuries in order to satisfy our desire for a good story. One interesting form, a precursor to cinema and comics as we now know them, was a storytelling practice outlined in a recent book by Eric P. Nash, Manga Kamishibai. Storytellers on the streets of Japan would tell elaborate stories with the aid of a sequence of paintings. From the publisher's site:

During the height of kamishibai in the 1930s, storytellers would travel to villages and set up their butais (miniature wooden prosceniums), through which illustrated boards were shown. The storytellers acted as entertainers and reporters, narrating tales that ranged from action-packed westerns, period pieces, traditional folk tales, and melodramas, to nightly news reporting on World War II. More than just explaining the pictures, a good storyteller would act out the parts of each character with different voices and facial expressions. 

Read some more excerpts and quotes from the author here.

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Jillian Tamaki's idea-foraging workshop.

Content for next gig!

^Harry Campbell^

Astronauts Seek Next Frontier:
students with last names between A and C
The beginning of fire insurance:
students with last names between D and E
Synchronicity:
students with last names between F and Ha
Doctors for Homeless Teens:
students with last names between Ho and I
Birds Twitter:
students with last names between J and L
Surprise Matisse crits:
students with last names between M and Z

see sam sketch!

Samantha Kallis keeps a terrific blog with lots of illustration process. Check it!

it does not comprehend reductions...

"You have two brains: a left and a right. Modern brain scientists now know that your left brain is your verbal and rational brain; it thinks serially and reduces its thoughts to numbers, letters and words… Your right brain is your nonverbal and intuitive brain; it thinks in patterns, or pictures, composed of ‘whole things,’ and does not comprehend reductions, either numbers, letters, or words."


From The Fabric of Mind, by the eminent scientist and neurosurgeon, Richard Bergland. Viking Penguin, Inc., New York 1985. pg.1