The big bull guy was always my favourite Wild Thing, and the way he was handled in the movie made me feel even more for him.

I thought he was the perfect character to show my appreciation for Sendai.

What is elaboration, and what is emphasis? One expands on the visual information, the other adds weight to (parts of) it.

I’d say if the image is only used for those purposes, and not to carry the narrative, we’re talking about an illustrated story and not a comic (being a visual form).

Please note the phrasing “comics at their finest,” giving the paragraph away as opinion—I hardly consider myself fit to make a statement like that on behalf of all comicdom. Barring that, hell yes! Text should be used sparingly in comics, if at all. As Rod’s cold reading demonstrates, there’s plenty information in the visuals to bring the story across.

I’m looking forward to seeing your “text-heavy” book, but I didn’t consider Dave Sim’s prose issues of Cerebus comics—we’ll see if you can change my mind. I suppose such experiments are more interesting to people who haven’t read E.P.Jacobs’ Blake & Mortimer.

Bah. What is “emphasis” or “elaboration”? Couldn’t the images be emphasis/elaboration too? Both emphasis or elaborate some unshown concept/goal/message/aesthetic.

My next issue is going to be text-heavy (I’m not saying that in reaction to this post, I’d already planned that part). I still think it will fine comics.

I’m wary of evaluative prescriptions like this. It’s not better than R.C. Harvey’s that the best comics have the right amount of “visual-verbal blending” at work.

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