GAREN EWING
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This blog began in 1997 as a single news page called Nucelus. In 2005, during a long wait to move into a new house, I decided to learn some php and MySQL and write my own blogging system, which became inkyBlog and which now powers this, my own Webbledegook blog.
Thank you to my brother, Murray Ewing, for help with some of the more challenging aspects!
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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.
This battle scene from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is more enthralling than any I've witnessed in a film.
- 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!
This battle scene from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is more enthralling than any I've witnessed in a film.