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I just realized that I did the book meme totally wrong. Gack.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
Let's try that again.
Today the closest book is "Comics and Sequential Art" by Will Eisner.
Unlike theatre (including cinema), in which the technology of its creation demands by its very nature the coordinated contributions of many specialists, comics have a history of being the product of a single individual.
The departure from the work of a single individual to that of a team is generally due to the exigency of time. More often the publisher ordains it out of a need to meet publication schedules, control his property when he owns a character, or when his editor assembles a team to suit an editorial thrust.
Many times the artist will bow to the editor's opinion that he has limited 'writing' skills -- or the artist will voluntarily abdicate the 'writing' role. So, to accommodate the dictates of the publisher or schedule, the artist will engage the services of a writer, or the writer will engage the skills of an artist. A bemusing result of this phenomenon has been hte dilemma faced by modern comic book publishers when they have sought to return to the creator of the 'originals' after publication. Who is the 'creator' of a comic page which was written by one person, penciled by another and inked, lettered (and perhaps colored or backgrounded) by still others??
Seven sentences. I got it right this time.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
Let's try that again.
Today the closest book is "Comics and Sequential Art" by Will Eisner.
Unlike theatre (including cinema), in which the technology of its creation demands by its very nature the coordinated contributions of many specialists, comics have a history of being the product of a single individual.
The departure from the work of a single individual to that of a team is generally due to the exigency of time. More often the publisher ordains it out of a need to meet publication schedules, control his property when he owns a character, or when his editor assembles a team to suit an editorial thrust.
Many times the artist will bow to the editor's opinion that he has limited 'writing' skills -- or the artist will voluntarily abdicate the 'writing' role. So, to accommodate the dictates of the publisher or schedule, the artist will engage the services of a writer, or the writer will engage the skills of an artist. A bemusing result of this phenomenon has been hte dilemma faced by modern comic book publishers when they have sought to return to the creator of the 'originals' after publication. Who is the 'creator' of a comic page which was written by one person, penciled by another and inked, lettered (and perhaps colored or backgrounded) by still others??
Seven sentences. I got it right this time.
