What role does the addition of captions and dialogue play?
I’m looking for some ambiguity in what the text might mean. I have a book on me all the time and when something comes up I jot it down. Dialogue from existing comic strips is quite difficult to find because you have to find something which isn’t specific to a certain comic but which could have other meanings. When I put words in a panel above a scene, I’m looking for some tension between the pic and the words – there’s the real meaning of the text, there’s what you can see in the pic. The pictures are usually so banal that it requires the reader to join the two up. As I’m doing this I’m aware that the reader will lose patience, which is why I started introducing the super-hero references and the Hostess Twinkies ads as I thought these might help stabilise things, especially if they were repeated throughout. How did your work first transform from disparate drawings into these comics-like strips and pages? The first 5 or 6 books I made were just collections of drawings, made as above tho
