Scott McCloud - The invisible Art

According to this US (or something) Comics drawer, the art of comics is invisible, like the film; the movement, what really matters, goes on between the pictures, in your brain.

This led him to an interesting classification on relations between two consecutive picures in a comic:

• - "years later"
• - scene to scene (of which "years later" would really be a species)
• - actor to actor (like he to she when describing a date or protagonist to antagonist when describing a battle)
• - action to action (like one picture he has hands in pocket, next he has cigarette in hand ready to light it)
• - micro-second to micro-second (like slow motion in a picure)
• - non-temporal, change of perspective on a room or a storm or ...
• - unrelated, unconnected (at least so far, at least in time and space) *

He also has an interesting observation on which kinds of transitions Hergé would make a priority, and which kinds get more attention in the manga.


Scott McCloud in Comiclopedia

Scott has a homepage too ...

Panel on theme: My Dad Makes Comics (feat. two daughters of Scott McCloud)

* This led him to an interesting classification on relations between two consecutive picures in a comic (follows the correct list):

• 1 Moment to moment (within an action)
• 2 Action to action (same subject and within scene)
• 3 Subject to subject (within a scene)
• 4 Scene to scene (within story)
• 5 Aspect to aspect (within "moment"/non-moment/mood)
• 6 unrelated and unconnected

Tintin-style - heavy emphasis on 2-3-4.
Manga-style - more of 1 and 5, less heavy emphasis on 2-3-4.
Absurdism - uses 6.