paying attention
| Sunday, May 3, 2009 10:18AM | | | | Visual Storytelling | Posted By: Mary Ann Caws
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| Tags: visual novel, Bechtel, Bukowski, Briggs, Shaw, responsibility, | | | Most of all I loved Jonathan Ames' Harry call, with which he opened and closed this session -- heartfelt, warm, loud, vibrating...
he organized the session aroung "origin stories" -- what started the three visual storytellers -- Emmanuel Guilbert, David Polonsky, Shaun Tan -- on their way. In one case, it was the contact sheet -- seeing side by side the photos led to the idea of the story in p ictures. Interesting, Guilbert pointed out that drawing and photosgraphs are always trying to kill each other. So they need their correct space.
Polonsky pointed out the challenge of illustrating someone else's memory. Shaun Tan, author of "The Arrival," said that to tell a good immigrant story, you would have to go to a country... | | | | | | | |
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