![]() Not the most appealing name for such an important aspect of comics.īut why am I telling you all this? Why am I stressing the importance of space in comics? Well that is because I ran into one this summer that utilized it in a way that I had never seen before.Īsterios Polyp is a comic written and drawn by David Mazzucchelli. However, with comics, it is space that juxtaposes one panel with the next.ĭid you ever wonder if there was a term for the tiny margin of empty space between panels? No? Well I am going to tell you anyways. But more importantly, with film, the way in which the images are juxtaposed with one another is through time, the chronology of the images as they get projected onto the screen, one after the other. You are forced to see frame after frame while watching film but with a comic, your eyes can wander. ![]() The comic is far more voluntary than film is. McCloud notes that the difference between comics and film is the way in which individual images are juxtaposed. Film is just a series of images, a comic in slow motion if you will. ![]() ![]() ![]() But isn’t film also sequential? Scott McCloud talks about how film is similar if you look at the film itself, and not when it is projected and played. Will Eisner famously used the term sequential art to describe comics. ![]()
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