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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...
Three figures, one kneels as though she’s praying or shy or depressed – or reading? Perhaps she is holding a book. We move into a starker contrast from left to right, in the reading direction. A witch’s familiar sits on the far right of the picture – a raven looking into her featureless face. She looks as though she holds a blade, ready to disembowel it.
ReplyDeleteBehind, what is there? Leaf veins? Tree branches? A world of wires and the inhuman world of electronic connection? On the witch’s lap sits an empty black glove, a symbol of absence, of powerlessness. It grasps at something that is not there…
What do people sit on? A floating leaf? Is there any division between sky and earth? Everyone looks at nothing – noone can be seen to look. The man’s eye has been hollowed out and replaced with nothing but sky….
Is it rain everywhere, or does the whole world cut us?