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This is the blog of Garen Ewing, writer, illustrator and researcher, creator of the award-winning Adventures of Julius Chancer, and lover of classic film, history, humanism and karate.

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THINGS I DO LIKE IN COMICS
Fri 5 Jan 2007

Now to be more positive, which is always nicer. I've avoided listing specific comics and creators, and stuck to what I really like about the medium.
  • I think it's wonderful that you can have drawings with these little balloons with words in that point to the person who's speaking and tell you what they're saying. Text and graphics together, and still enough room for the reader to have their own voice in the mix
  • The way a fantastic story coupled with an artistic style can completely draw you in to another world.
  • A panel that makes you feel as though you are there, a story with a strong sense of environment
  • The fact that manga has spread into Europe and America, and has enthused a new generation of readers and creators, especially kids, and both boys and girls equally. It can only be good for all comics now and in the years to come
  • The huge diversity of talents, styles, genres, stories, ideas... and they're all comics
  • The look of a comic page in its entirety with repeated characters, shapes and colours. Clear line has an especially strong graphical effect that is lovely
  • You can do anything with a pen and paper, and the comics format is particularly versatile
  • Pretty much all the people I know and friends I have made who make comics are top people, from professionals to self-publishers - it's a great scene to be involved in
  • The fact that comics are, actually, quite a high concept!
See related post: Things I don't like in comics.


This battle scene from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is more enthralling than any I've witnessed in a film.
posted 05.01.07 at 3:20 pm in Comics | permalink |

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