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Turning points
- November 25, 2023
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- Category: Behind the Scenes
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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 -
Faces
- November 19, 2023
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- Category: Character Focus
A distinctive feature of ‘Casanova in Paris’ is the appearance of the characters. In Carl Doherty’s review for ‘Shelf Abuse’(here), he writes: ‘Butters’ characters are largely repulsive; crooked and bulbous noses looming over uneven teeth amidst misshapen faces. While Hollywood and BBC dramas may still seek to celebrate the fashions and décor enjoyed by -
Time bending
- September 30, 2023
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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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