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Thanks sleaze.
I totally get you on the "non-printed" thing. I think it would all fit together better in your hands. I tend to flick back and forth a lot when I read comics - I love being able to access all the information right in front of me. I think that's why I find a comics second reading to be more enjoyable, as well. I tend to glance through first time, and pick up on everything the second time - knowing where it all is.
I'm not sure if all the right pages would be next to each other, when printed. My design fell down a little there, but I think it would be a lot simpler. I don't like reading it on the computer much at all, either.
I'm surprised this hasn't come up sooner, actually, because I expected it. However, in adressing yr points I'll just explain a little about how I put this together. Originally I conceived this project as an art exercise in learning how to draw comics. I started it because I wanted to draw the cover - which is from a photo. I started thinking about looking at photos when those people are gone... and I sketched out a little story. I thought it would be nice and simple and a good showcase for my art. However, I decided I hated the narrative as I thought it was trite and lame - and I didn't want that. So I lifted the more simple story aspects out, and started making things a bit more vague/dream-like (this is before I started on most of the art). The bare essentials of the narrative are still in there - but they just hint at things rather than telling you everything. I decided it was much better to keep everything ambiguous so people could..uh... put themselves in to it, I guess. I still figure you can read it as a simple story (with a jumpy time-frame) or as something keying you in to a particular feeling. I think Matthew explains this very well (and better than I'd dare to!) See;
"In terms of story, Sleeping Beauty is a bit slight. It's less of a traditional story than a dreamy, lyrical meditation about young love. The comic works in a way similar to a song or a poem, with John's words and images coming together as an expression of memories, ambiguous emotions and stray thoughts rather than a conventional narrative." from fluxblog.
The way I feel about it - and what I was trying to achieve at various points of working on it was "Slipping in and out of sleep lying next to somebody you love" which I've distilled to a simpler "cold/warm" - as in cold feelings and thoughts with an underlying feeling of warmth prevailing throughout.
As for when they got together - that's pretty much there in the flashback bit at the beginning. The "splitting up" isn't so important as it's not meant to be obvious. (Originally it was obvious, and they only went past each other right at the end. It was going to be my version of a silent, Tomine-like ending).
I have one other project similar in style (story-poem-song-esque) to this, but I'm going to try and introduce a lot more aspects to it to make it more of a story.
I now feel incredibly pompous, posting so much about that.
As for what I'll do with it. Hopefully this is going to get printed. No idea when; money decides. I am going to apply for a grant. I want to send it everywhere - this is sort of preliminary to that. I think have to keep asking what to do to keep it in mind to actually do it!
I'm debating whether to send the link to a few publishers right now. I've had some nice feedback already, though. Jeffrey Brown had some pretty nice things to say.
Lastly as for what I want to do... primarily self publish due to circumstance. Selling my stories/getting published = a dream I daren't quite hope for, right now.
(ps. I think I get the Weezer thing, now. I didn't know they were emo, either! I thought they were like "alternative" or something equally vague. Am now fully prepared to be God-like to all the emo children. I've seen Tomine described as emo too, I think. Only now am I realising I've never really understood that term. My comment above = my obligratory Pavement reference.) |
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