Some media are better for some stories than others. I’d like to think that’s obvious, but the way mass culture obsesses about adapting everything into movies and TV shows makes me think it’s either a minority opinion or that a lot of people are just dim.
For example: you can do a strong, mostly silent type in a filmed format, and give him hidden emotional depths by turning his thoughts into a voiceover. But a novel is a much more natural and obvious way to tell that story. Comics, too, has less obtrusive ways to incorporate narration — the old thought bubbles, or the more modern narrative captions.
Which brings me to Jorge Ruiz, narration and central character of Svetlana Chamakova’s third graphic novel about the kids of Berrybrook Middle School, Crush . (It follows Awkward and Brave ). He’s the kind of kid who’s better at doing than talking,...
For example: you can do a strong, mostly silent type in a filmed format, and give him hidden emotional depths by turning his thoughts into a voiceover. But a novel is a much more natural and obvious way to tell that story. Comics, too, has less obtrusive ways to incorporate narration — the old thought bubbles, or the more modern narrative captions.
Which brings me to Jorge Ruiz, narration and central character of Svetlana Chamakova’s third graphic novel about the kids of Berrybrook Middle School, Crush . (It follows Awkward and Brave ). He’s the kind of kid who’s better at doing than talking,...
- 11/29/2018
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
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