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  • Turning points

    • April 13, 2019
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      Any story can, and probably will, contain a variety of turning points which shift the course of events, the directions of the lives of individual characters and the sympathy or antipathy of the audience.  In so doing, more turning points may be created of greater or lesser significance and these changes layer upon, and
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  • Time bending

    • March 9, 2019
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      A fundamental, and fascinating, quality of any narrative, but especially one that incorporates a visual element, is the manipulation of time.  Unlike objective time, which is classically a constant and unidirectional phenomenon (at least at the human experience of reality) time in a graphic novel is much more flexible.  It is reflective, in a
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  • The hunter and the hunted – the script

    • February 2, 2019
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      In a recent blog we discussed the first meeting between Casanova and The Southerner.  Well here’s an extract from the script for the scene above that Kev used as the basis for the drawing.  Once Dave has written the script, Kev doesn’t have to follow it but can play around with it to his
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