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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...
This image is particularly fascinating.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, a beautifully clean photograph and technically excellent.
The green-white colour scheme is inverted through the windows and the flowers – the grass is green at the bottom white on the top, in contrast to the flowers.
Narcissus flowers have of course a very particular meaning in our culture because of the myth, so this is always in the background, as with the theme of mirroring – the pool in this case is the glass.
Why the twice? A reference to the flowers, to reproduction (twice as in multiplication) and the continuity of our uniqueness in the totality of life.
It is particularly interesting that one of the flowers sits against a cross and is being caressed by the one in the corner – immediately an image of the Virgin and the Christ (Pietas) comes up…