http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/comics-and-poetry-together-again/ The Blog@ Team and prominent comics personalities share what’s on their minds. Sat, 25 May 2013 03:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/comics-and-poetry-together-again/comment-page-1/#comment-566039 Shirlene Cifuentes Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:23:43 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/comics-and-poetry-together-again/#comment-566039 Hey great site and I enjoyed it! Hey great site and I enjoyed it!

]]> http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/comics-and-poetry-together-again/comment-page-1/#comment-72681 RAB Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:50:13 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/comics-and-poetry-together-again/#comment-72681 I would have quibbled with Ed Park's opening statement that "Heightened language -- one possible or partial definition of poetry -- isn’t the first thing one associates with comics" were it not for the fact that the next sentence, and indeed the whole concept behind this experiment, is based on understanding that heightened language is <i>precisely</i> the nature of good comics writing. Scripting a comic isn't prose writing and it isn't making a screenplay of spoken words (though both of these occasionally come into fashion as stylistic experiments) but a highly compressed form with rules and restrictions all its own. Likening the verbal aspect of comics to poetry rather than to novels or movies seems like a hugely useful and interesting comparison, and definitely one I've never heard before. I would have quibbled with Ed Park’s opening statement that “Heightened language — one possible or partial definition of poetry — isn’t the first thing one associates with comics” were it not for the fact that the next sentence, and indeed the whole concept behind this experiment, is based on understanding that heightened language is precisely the nature of good comics writing. Scripting a comic isn’t prose writing and it isn’t making a screenplay of spoken words (though both of these occasionally come into fashion as stylistic experiments) but a highly compressed form with rules and restrictions all its own. Likening the verbal aspect of comics to poetry rather than to novels or movies seems like a hugely useful and interesting comparison, and definitely one I’ve never heard before.

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