I just look at the pictures

[tamaranth]

Scott McCloud's I Can't Stop Thinking ...

Used to read many more comics than I do now. But tempted all over again by what McCloud writes.

(Should, of course, also be commenting on what Gaiman writes. And it is 'writes', these days. American Gods is a fine book, even considering its relative lack of rivers. And no, it is not 'just the same as Sandman').

But I digress.

Am heading out to buy Transmetropolitan, because I liked what I read. And maybe if it is not solid text I can read it. (Reading solid text, in book form, for more than about 20 minutes sets off twitches, neuralgia, migraines and depression-at-not-having-finished-Years-of-Rice-and-Salt)

Comments

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Shall I bring Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics along to Signs of Life tomorrow?

I have been using them for the last couple of years along with the Tufte books on how to design effective graphical information as excellent guides for web designers on semiotics and perception. They form an excellent counterpoint to the Nielsen/Tog usability axis.

Transmetropolitan is brilliant. And nearly over. Damn. What will Ellis do next?

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

And no, it is not 'just the same as Sandman').

Hmm, got anyone in mind when you say this? :-)

And I do still think that in American Gods he's going over the same themes he's already treated in Sandman, good though the novel is (I felt the same about Neverwhere).

Everybody's talking about Scott McLoud ...

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

... including the BBC. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1925000/1925780.stm)