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A review by helpfulsnowman
Winnebago Graveyard by Steve Niles, Alison Sampson
1.0
Here’s Pete’s Rule of Comics Greatness:
A good comic is understandable from the text alone. A good comic is also understandable by the images alone. A great comic is understandable from either the text or images alone, and the text and images work together, enhancing each other and enriching each other.
Which means a terrible comic isn’t understandable from the text alone OR the images alone, and when the two come together it doesn’t really help.
The best comics you walk away from feeling like the text and images are perfect for each other, and you can’t imagine a different artist or writer on the book.
Lots of good comics have one or the other: say the art is just okay and the writing is great.
Bad comics are both. Just indecipherable.
Also this had like 5-10 text essays at the end. This trend in comics is no bueno.
Here’s an idea: use the medium to express what you want to express as opposed to using the medium as a delivery vehicle for academic essays. Comics are not the cheese you put around the medicine to get a dog to take it. They can be the cheese AND the medicine.
A good comic is understandable from the text alone. A good comic is also understandable by the images alone. A great comic is understandable from either the text or images alone, and the text and images work together, enhancing each other and enriching each other.
Which means a terrible comic isn’t understandable from the text alone OR the images alone, and when the two come together it doesn’t really help.
The best comics you walk away from feeling like the text and images are perfect for each other, and you can’t imagine a different artist or writer on the book.
Lots of good comics have one or the other: say the art is just okay and the writing is great.
Bad comics are both. Just indecipherable.
Also this had like 5-10 text essays at the end. This trend in comics is no bueno.
Here’s an idea: use the medium to express what you want to express as opposed to using the medium as a delivery vehicle for academic essays. Comics are not the cheese you put around the medicine to get a dog to take it. They can be the cheese AND the medicine.