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The Artful Readers Club for March
The Walking Dead Compendium One by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard { and some other folks} Charlie Adlard recently admitted in an interview that he often makes up his characters on the page. A fact which can cause any serious character designer to bow in admiration. As you can see the likeness of the graphic novel with the AMC show is very close. Tweet Review: A long, arduous display of how a few people can entertain the masses. Since I am reading and watching The Walking Dead simultaneously, I am constantly comparing the two. Fans of the television series will be pleased to know that the graphic novel is just as interesting, if not more so. The details are very different in the first 48 issues of the graphic novel, for example, Carl is a lot younger and has a playmate Sophie..whose fate in the television series is quite astonishing. There are endless differences, but the overall storyline remains consistent in both versions which is; what happens to people during a...
First thoughts, as always. Reminds me of the various paintings of readers that the Impressionists did (specifically that of Renoir).
ReplyDeleteVery computeristic and experimental - interestingly, the fragment on the book reads 'e-art'...
The hair is very interesting at the back - like a jigsaw puzzle (like the book image too - I think perhaps an allusion to the construction of the image, perhaps?)
The 'R' on the book is not coloured in. This is perhaps an allusion to the invisible quality of letters towards which everything is progressing (we can't see the letter when we read - it's 'invisible'). I can't help thinking it shows a hope to make the technique as invisible (the invisible r is the final progression of the code/hope to which every element is going).
(compare the shading on the face to the shading of the letters on the book, which invites a comparison, or emphasises the textiness...)
In fact, the figure is clothed in 'invisibility' too...
I stopped coloring the WAR part of the book because it struck me that it could be read as "R" war.
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