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Comics and Rayographs

  
 
pointless and uncalled for
18:48 / 22.01.02
Just a though given to me by the contemplative segment of my brain.

How a about a comic contructed of Rayographs?

Feasible?

Good?

Bad?

Ridiculous?
 
 
Captain Zoom
18:54 / 22.01.02
(Feeling a little uninformed)

What's a rayograph?

Zoom.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
18:58 / 22.01.02
Rayographs are a photographic method created by Man Ray.

I'll look for a nice link for you tomorrow, when I have some time.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
19:16 / 22.01.02
Ahh, what the heck, i'll do it now.

Here is a link to a classic rayograph.Rayograph

And this is the definition here.

A cameraless photograph produced by placing objects directly onto light-sensitive paper or film and exposing them to light. Photogenic drawings, Christian Schad's Schadographs, and Man Ray's Rayographs are all photograms.

Something like that.
 
 
sleazenation
19:22 / 22.01.02
I thought that those were cyanotypes... anyhoo i think its a great challenge to form an interesting narrative within the confines of such a structure.

I'd also like to see a comic with the panels laid out in the style of mondrian.
 
 
Captain Zoom
09:07 / 23.01.02
What kind of narrative structure could you achieve with that kind of visual though. I imagine it would be hard to develop characters, though you could have the comic in first person and that's what the person sees.

I imagine, at least for the art, it would be extremely time-consuming.

Is this an artform you're involved with? I'd be willing to try to script something like that.

Zoom.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
09:07 / 23.01.02
No technique is ridiculous for a comic if it suits the story well. If you do it, I'll read it.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
10:25 / 23.01.02
Thinking further on the subject, I think it would be a little hard to do a complete story line just with rayographs but if you tie in photogenic drawings as well, then you could have something good going on there.

It was just a musing I had and wanted som expert opinion on how people would feel about seeing something like this come out in print.

Thanks for the feedback, I shall file this under something to do one of these days.
 
  
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