Stand Alone Complex
Something that I've come across many, many times during the course of learning about comic art is the belief that comic rt should be able to stand alone, without the dialogue.Frankly, I disagree.
Why should it? Why tailor your art to be independent, when the reader is going to be seeing both the words and pictures at the same time? If an artist draws a story in such a way that it's independent of the dialogue, and then the dialogue is added, won't that result in a few redundancies? And I know being redundant is a no-no, unless you're Frank Miller.
And I've seen a lot of comics where the action can't be followed just by reading the art alone. Try reading the Finch/Bendis issues of New Avengers. Or Supreme Power, by Frank and JMS. It can get confusing real quick.
I suppose the belief that art should be independent of the story is more applicable to people trying to break in the industry, since it encourages young artists to be as clear as possible with their storytelling. And that's all good. But what if they pick up the habit of just repeating what the script is already saying anyway?
posted by butch @ 9/27/2005
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