|
BOBC |
 |
 |
 |
Successfully added resource(s) to basket
|
Baetens, Jan and Hugo Frey. "‘Layouting’ for the plot: Charles burns and the clear line revisited." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 8.(2017): 193–202. Added by: joachim (5/7/18, 10:48 AM) Last edited by: joachim (3/21/23, 11:07 AM) |
| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2016.1270219 BibTeX citation key: Baetens2017b Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "X’ed Out", Belgium, Burns. Charles, Hergé, Intertextuality, Narratology, Production, Remi. Georges, Style, USA Creators: Baetens, Frey Publisher: Collection: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics |
Views: 16/1008
|
| Attachments |
| Abstract |
|
Relying on a close-reading of a page selected from Charles Burns’ X’ed out (2010), this article proposes a critical debate on the stakes of producing and reading remakes. In other words: what does it mean to rework a Clear Line aesthetic, both from the point of view of drawing and from that of storytelling? We argue that this reworking does not only reveal hidden aspects of the original model, but it also provides new feedback on the way we read it. More specifically, at the end of our original reading of Burns’ remake, we ask for the opening of a debate on the Clear Line style (in the past it has been too often reduced to the technique of stylised drawing and a smooth, transparent, storytelling). For us, the beginning of such a new debate will be the discussion of layout and nonlinear ways of storytelling that are very different from standard panel-to-panel transitions. As we discuss throughout, it is the power of these aspects that Burns’ work helps us to best think through.
|
PHP execution time: 0.05698 s
SQL execution time: 0.13975 s
TPL rendering time: 0.00316 s
Total elapsed time: 0.19989 s
Peak memory usage: 5.5774 MB
Memory at close: 1.5202 MB
Database queries: 85