Unspeakable
Update: You can download the revised version of this comic in PDF paying what you want, even zero.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“it’s good to know it works for you”
voy a robarme esa frase
are you published? i think i’d LOVE to buy a comic book of yours 😉
Soon I’ll be posting about this. I’m working on a print-on-demand book, a selection of comics from the Secret Knots.
Dun, dun, DUUNN! 😉
Seriously I like your work a lot. Some of it really hits home, a little too hard even. Keep it up. 😀