Three Writers are Drawn by the Allure of Comics (NPR)
Comments(2) As comic books — or, in more highbrow parlance, graphic novelizations — nudge their way onto the shelves of bookstores and the pages of literary magazines, some well-known writers are trying their hand at the genre. Pop-culture icon Joss Whedon, best-selling novelist Jodi Picoult and rapper Percy Carey are among those feeling the lure of comics. –John Ridley
[From Elizabeth. Comics and graphic novels transition easily from page to screen using storyboards, but a storyboard is different from a comic panel, which Scott McCloud explains in Understanding Comics and Making Comics. I remember strongly disagreeing with associating comics and film in a portfolio paper for my MA degree, but Mark C. Rogers presented a similar argument at last year’s National PCA with “Wile E. Coyote Still Died for Your Sins: Intertextuality and Continuity in Sandman and Animal Man“. BK]
category: Comics, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics