Unspeakable
Are you familiar with Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book? It’s a compilation of notes that can be seen as story seeds, a few of them developed in some of his tales, many of them vague indications about moods or background sketches, some dreams, some characteristic and ominous tale twists and outcomes. Everything you need to weave a tale that you may finish speaking in cursives. I found out about it almost a year ago in La Petite Claudine, and I was suggested that I should submit something to An Exhibition of Unspeakable Things. (Please follow the link if you want to know more and behold the non-euclidean beauty of their poster). I wrote a story then and made some sketches, as the time passed, the story grew longer, the deadlines came and went, and the tale was left in my own commonplace book I guess. Only recently I rewrote it and tried to divide it into small narrative chunks that could be serialized in The Secret Knots.
So here it is, the first part of my non submitted entry, I hope you like it.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Cinnamon biscuits were bigger as well… Wait, that was when I was a child. I guess everything is bigger when you are a child…
Great atmosphere.
February 18th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
I believe what I like best about your comic is the way narrative and dialogue can take place simultaneously. It adds something that prose can’t have, and you do it particularly well.
That’s besides the art, mind you. I love the art.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I often wonder if what I’m writing is really using the comics format, taking advantage of it. I’ve felt several time suspiciously near the edge of an illustrated tale or poem, specially when there’s no dialog involved. Then it’s when certain narrative devices of the graphic storytelling become more evident: the pacing, the body language of characters, the way in which text is placed and distributed on the page, etc. It’s good to know it works for you.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:19 am
“it’s good to know it works for you”
voy a robarme esa frase