In a message dated 5/1/08 10:25:57 AM,
ssshapir@yahoo.com writes:
> I have read comics since I was a kid. From as long
as I've been a
> reader, in fact. And in some weird way I think
reading non-graphic
> novels has spoiled my reading of comics. I now read
very quickly
> whereas when I used to read comics as a kid I would
linger over the
> pictures for ages and re-read a comic several times.
Now I'm impatient
> to get through the story -- why should it take me
longer to read a
> four issue comic story than a Hammett, for instance?
The older I get
> the more impatient I become. So I whiz through
comics these days while
> my inner child chides me for not getting the whole
picture. And if
> you've never grown up reading comics with the
patience of a child you
> might not even know what it is you're missing when
you skim through a
> comic.
>
I have a numbered Steranko lithograph framed on my wall. it's
black and white and your eye immediately goes to the
trenchcoated guy bursting thru a door into a bedroom. you
follow his eyeline to the nude and bound female foreground,
partially obscured in shadow. she's lying on top of a
newspaper headline that reads: SILK STOCKING KILLER AT LARGE.
next to that is a rotary telephone, off the hook. you can
almost hear the busy signal blaring from the receiver, or
perhaps a frantic voice on the other end
from there, your eye travels to the only source of light in
the room, the raised sash window to the left, whose blinds
are partially drawn. the blinds cast serrated shadows across
the wall, all the way back to the door from which the hero
entered
and behind that door is the silhouette of a man, silk
stocking clenched between his fists like a garrotte
visual storytelling at its finest
John Lau
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