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THE BLOG AT THE CROSSROADS
This Week’s Article: SVK
Posted: July 3, 2011
Thought balloons have become uncool in comics. Those traditional, puffy cumulonimbus clouds billowing out of people’s brains have all but disappeared from contemporary graphic novels. Instead, these days the thinking process is more likely to be represented by a character’s interior monologue unraveling in a series of rectangular caption boxes. Warren Ellis and D’Israeli do things differently in their latest collaborative experiment. In SVK, they make secret thoughts visible, readable, thanks to a combination of light-sensitive ink illuminated by an accompanying ultraviolet mini-torch. Thoughts light up here as blockish-shaped speech balloons with truncated tails emanating from the head rather than tapering tails from the mouth. In Tom Woodwind they devise a comic character who can read the banal, repressed or sometimes revelatory world inside other people’s minds as text messages all in capital letters straight out of a comic book. Read the full article here…
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