comic book

occupation / innovator as

novelist

nationality

American

essayist

sexual orientation

journalist

cartoonist

literary critic

science fiction writer

religion

atheism

race / ethnicity

African American

innovator in the field of

gender studies

is a genre able to mess with time without drawing attention to it, slowing down, for example, a split second action over six panels which in a movie the same thing would be an egregious slow motion gimmick.

You can go into slow motion or fast motion in a comic book in a way you can't in a movie without drawing attention to it. You can have six panels in a row where the actions are a half second apart, or you can skip years between panels and it just doesn't have the same egregious quality, where, in a movie, Peckinpah slows down the murder and it seems that the body collapse in slow motion; it seems like an entirely different thing when you do that on film and when you do that on the comics page.

is a genre in which the viewer is a 'co-producer" of the text at a level of involvement and intensity just through the nature of the medium itself.

The viewer is a 'co-producer" of the comics text at a level of involvement and intensity just through the nature of the medium itself.

is a visual medium in which the writer works for the artist, in the same that the writer in a movie works for the director.

...in a visual medium, a comics format … the writer works for the artist, in the same that the writer in a movie works for the director.

is not a thing one reads. one looks at a comic book. if you start out to 'read' a comic book, you're starting out with the wrong mind-set.

You know, I distrust people who 'read' comics … you don't read a comic book. You look at a comic book. While you're looking at a comic, sure, you read the words; as well, you learn to look at the panels in a certain order, in a certain way … if you start out to 'read' a comic book, you're starting out with the wrong mind-set.if you start out to 'read' a comic book, you're starting out with the wrong mind-set.

Samuel Delany

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