[UA] Books of Magic

[Tim Toner]

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From: Nick Wedig <mrteapot at disinfo.net>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 5:10 AM
Subject: RE: [UA] Books of Magic


> >I wouldn't laugh too hard. There's at least one Sandman
> graphic novel that
> >was only published in that format. It has words (but no
> word balloons) and
> >pictures and meets the various definitions of 'graphic
> novel' as expressed
> >on this list except for the 'collected works' part. It's
> called Dream
> >Hunters and has very nice art by the guy who did all of
> those Final Fantasy
> >pictures (I'd just butcher his name if I tried to spell
> it). So be sure to
> >clarify before mocking them.
>
> Yoshitaka Amano, IIRC.
>
> Dream Hunters isn't a comic.  It isn't a graphic novel.
> It's a novel with pictures in it.

The term is 'illustrated novel.'  A good example of the difference is to
look and see if the pictures supply information vital to the understanding
of the story.  If you could cover them up and still understand the book,
then it's 'illustrated.'

>
> nah, the physical format is less important than the
> juxtaposition of visual and non-visual images to tell a
> story, or some such.  Read something by Scott McCloud.

Actually, my favorite is "DESTROY!" with the Red Basher and Captain Maximum
destroying every landmark in New York systematically over a dame...

Oh, you meant one of his ACADEMIC works?  My bad.



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