Shadowolf
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- Posted: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:15:05 +0000
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When it comes to superheroes, I'm more akin to story, but will sometimes pick something up by art.
Otherwise, I very much pick up comics for art moreso than story. Part of it because I'm studying graphic novel art and sequential art, so I kinda have to! But I like to pick up graphic novels at bookstores without knowing absolutely anything about it to begin with, and may judge by the art alone. It doesn't necessarily have to be technically savvy -- in fact, I sometimes like to find art with very experimental qualities, or really nice stylization and stuff. It's fun to discover random things like that sometimes.
Otherwise, I very much pick up comics for art moreso than story. Part of it because I'm studying graphic novel art and sequential art, so I kinda have to! But I like to pick up graphic novels at bookstores without knowing absolutely anything about it to begin with, and may judge by the art alone. It doesn't necessarily have to be technically savvy -- in fact, I sometimes like to find art with very experimental qualities, or really nice stylization and stuff. It's fun to discover random things like that sometimes.
what type of graphic novels do you like? very cool that you are studying that.. amazing.. wish i could do something like that lol...
have you read The Fountain? i know it was made into a movie (never saw it) but the graphic novel is pretty amazing, and in many portions the artwork is kinda almost primitive..
I like many kinds! My teacher, Gary Amaro (who's done stuff for Books of Magic) has introduced a lot of really weird stuff that's influenced my own collecting, so I got some bizarre things in my collection.
I tend to like a lot of Vertigo stuff (esp. some of the 80's/early-90's that were really experimental). I also really tend to be really attracted to dark fantasy, surreal fantasy, gothic horror, and Alice in Wonderland/Oz-like adventures. Lynchian or stream of consciousness-like stuff also really catches my eye. I also like culture-inspired stories, offbeat action/adventure, anything with art nouveau or Expressionist design. I'm a bit rather particular with sci-fi, hi-fantasy, and family/relation-dramas though (but there are pleeenty I enjoy!). I think I might do a thread here eventually to showcase some of the weird stuff I got (and to see what other stuff people got)... that always interests me, hehe.
Gary once showed us The Fountain, I've browsed through it, but I haven't actually read it yet (next time I see it for a decent price, I will pick it up). I know the movie and the graphic novel are distinct from each other (neither is an adaptation of the other). The movie was cancelled, so Darren Aronofsky made it a graphic novel with Kent Williams free to interpret the script his way, but then the movie was green lit again, so he continued with that in a completely different way, so I hear.