Pretending to be Caitirin
Mar. 8th, 2006 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elabySo, this is sort of like a Book Journal entry, and I'm pretending to be ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caitirin, because she's the coolest kid on the block :)
I just finished reading the graphic novel version of Paul Aster's City of Glass.
This was very skillfully done, and I'm interested in reading the original story now to see how they compare. I was particularly impressed with the way that illusion was worked with, and the "trick" the artist had of panning out and out and out every panel and making the picture something new with every "pan-out," if that makes any sense. For example, there was a building view out a window that in the next panel turned into a simple line-drawing of a building that turned into a maze that got smaller and smaller and turned into a fingerprint, which was on the glass on the window out which the first panel I mentioned was looking.
So, have any of you guys read this? I'd be interested in knowing what you make of it, because at this point I really have no idea what I think. I'm going to need to think SOMEthing, because I have to write a response paper on it, but right now I'm just kind of going "... huh. Okay." This is just the thing that all sorts of stuff could be academically read into, but I just don't know what those things are yet.
caitirin, because she's the coolest kid on the block :)I just finished reading the graphic novel version of Paul Aster's City of Glass.
This was very skillfully done, and I'm interested in reading the original story now to see how they compare. I was particularly impressed with the way that illusion was worked with, and the "trick" the artist had of panning out and out and out every panel and making the picture something new with every "pan-out," if that makes any sense. For example, there was a building view out a window that in the next panel turned into a simple line-drawing of a building that turned into a maze that got smaller and smaller and turned into a fingerprint, which was on the glass on the window out which the first panel I mentioned was looking.
So, have any of you guys read this? I'd be interested in knowing what you make of it, because at this point I really have no idea what I think. I'm going to need to think SOMEthing, because I have to write a response paper on it, but right now I'm just kind of going "... huh. Okay." This is just the thing that all sorts of stuff could be academically read into, but I just don't know what those things are yet.
