There’s actually an exhibit of process art for my book in the Fine Arts library at USC! Maybe of interest. There will be a companion exhibit about graphic novels over in the science and engineering library. Opening shortly.
An Exhibit!
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Hi Holly!
Thank you very much for your kind comment. I’m very glad to hear you enjoyed the book. For the speech bubbles, I was very careful to follow standard conventions on how to read them. So I think in all cases if you stick to the conventions, it should work out. Comics have a particular set of conventions for how you read them (which you may or may not know, I don’t know), and I’m using those. And if it sometimes doesn’t work, that’s OK, you can just read that panel again. Just like sometimes in a real conversation there can be a bit of confusion but you just carry-on enjoying the conversation anyway. BUT there are some places where I deliberately mess with the convention and intentionally introduce confusion into the order in which you’re supposed to read the speech. Perhaps it is one of those places that you got confused. I think there are two or three such instances and it is in the middle of discussing the breakdown of space and time where I deliberately mess with the order of things because I am messing with the fabric of space and time of the comics page at the same time. In other words, sometimesI am explicitly play with the conventions of the comics form in order to resonate with the physics being discussed, in this case the breakdown of space and time. I did not want to over explain it but you can find it in the notes in a couple of places at the end of the chapters.
Cheers!
–cvj
Sorry for the typo.
I love The Dialogues. Bravo! But…I have a suggestion, to. I find it a bit distracting, navigating each page’s dialogue bubbles. Sometimes I move in the wrong direction. Perhaps it would help to have tiny little numbers at the top or bottom of each one, to help those of us who are “directionally-challenged”? Thanks for considering. Look forward to more of your books.