Began with a short film promo for the amazing Stitches which behaved like one of those old Marvel adaptations, where they simply took old books and animated the panels, except with the music, somber voiceover narration (by Small himself), pacing, and subject matter of an independent film.
David Small
A massively popular children's book illustrator, he made Stitches because he had the idea to write a novel, got encouragement to do so, but didn't have the words. Needed to express story through drawing. In Paris, met with friend and illustrator who encouraged him to express what he had inside and had to get it out in a healthy way or it would kill him. He had passed out by a urinal, apparently.
Audrey Niffenegger
Did the Night Bookmobile because she made comix as a teen. Huge RAW fan. Maus was a huge inspiration. As was Art Spiegelman, whose hand I shook no less than 30 minutes ago!
Q&A
Communicating in pictures gets straight to our hearts, surpassing guard towers of rationale, etc. Why films affect so deeply...
Recommended graphic novels: Chris Ware, Allison Bechdel from AN.
Blankets, AD New Orleans, Blue Pills (Frederick Peters)
They are both upset that "small stories" are no longer being told, must make sense to the way our brains are wired, which the digital stories do not.
1 comment:
Love this! Thanks for posting it. Niffenegger and Small are two of my absolute favorites!
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