FROM DUSK TILL DRAWN: Comics Art Studies and Graphic Narratives Composition, Workshops, Events & Zine Publishing @ Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University [Bangkok – THAILAND]
“Like how does something happen, and … how does it reverberate through time? And that act of memory is important, and comics are great for memory. Like even when you have a short comic, like a three-panel comic, you’ve got a past, a present and a future as soon as you look at those three boxes. And that allows you to reflect and compare times.” Art Spiegelman, NPR interview, 2011
The Giraffe by Gotlib (FR), originally published in: Pilote magazine, France (year ?). Re-published in Rubrique-à-Brac Vol.2, Dargaud, France, 1971. English translation by Kim Thompson for Honk! #4, Fantagraphics Books, USA, 1986.
Screw Style (ねじ式, “Neji-shiki”)by Yoshiharu Tsuge (JP), originally published in: Garo magazine #47, Japan, June 1968. Scans from The Comics Journal #250 (February 2003). Translation by Bill Randall. Via SAP Comics. With some original artwork (below).
Contains scenes of a sexual nature. Viewer discretion advised.
The Exemplary Life of Jijé (“La Vie Exemplaire de Jijé“) by Yves Chaland (FR) with inks by Serge Clerc & Denis Sire in: Métal Hurlant#64, Les Humanoïdes Associés, France, June 1981. Scanlation by Spirou Reporter.
The short story “served as the opening sequence for the movie adaptation SIN CITY (directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller in 2005), which featured Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton. The sequence served as the original proof of concept footage that director Robert Rodriguez filmed to convince Frank Miller to allow him to adapt Sin City to the silver screen (source)” Watch the film sequence HERE.
Film still from the opening sequence for the movie adaptation Sin City, which featured Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton.
“It was the first time I had had my mind blown. Sitting on that couch, I felt time extend infinitely backwards and forwards, with a sense of all the biggest of small moments in between. And it wasn’t just my mind: “Here” blew apart the confines of graphic narrative and expanded its universe in one incendiary flash, introducing a new dimension to visual narrative that radically departed from the traditional up-down and left-right reading of comic strips. And the structure was organic, nodding not only to the medium’s past but also hinting at its future.” Chris Ware, The Guardian, December 17, 2014 (see below for link to the article).
Dear students, the 2014 extended version ofHere is available @ Kinokuniya bookstores.
An interesting adaptation of the original six pages of McGuire’s Here into a short film (“about a series of events in time that happen in one point of space: the corner of a room in a normal house”). Student-produced at the RIT Dept. of Film & Video in 1991, by Tim Masick and Bill Trainor for their senior thesis project.
And an interesting GIF of Richard McGuire’s complete original version of Here.
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