For me - comics are 100% art. The writing is secondary. I've discovered the people who still love the comics...are less picky about the art.
I'm similar. The art is very important to me, although there are some comics that I think are written really well were I was willing to go over imho hideous artwork. Watchmen for example. I know it is supposed to be some kind of homage but ewww. And also parts of Sandman (which I otherwise love to pieces).
I tend to prefer the European drawing styles, because it seems less muscle and plastic to me but there are some truly brilliant US-artists too like David Mack for example.
I love your icon</> Thank you :). Benjamin Lacombe, he does wonderful creepy children's book artwork. Sadly no comics, I would instant buy if he ever did.
I tried to transfer a PDF of hers - and it was teeny tiny print, I gave up finally.
Pdf is horried for the Kindle (nice for the I-pad though), I was thinking of converting it to .mobi (the kindle format) there you can also change the size of the text and fond and so on. There is a freeware software called Calibre, which can convert basically everything into everything. PDF to reader sometimes does unfortunate things like writing the page numbers in the middle of the text but it still massively beats trying to navigate a PDF on the kindle.
Manga actually does go the gamut.
It really does, there is everything in Manga. It's weird because they actually react to the customers interests even if they don't conform with society. See the amount of gay love stories from women and read by women. Japanese society is quite homophobic in many ways but they don't seem to have the urge to suppress a literary subculture just because it is not targeting men. Or the fictional women advertisers imagine.
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Date: 2011-12-31 06:54 am (UTC)I'm similar. The art is very important to me, although there are some comics that I think are written really well were I was willing to go over imho hideous artwork. Watchmen for example. I know it is supposed to be some kind of homage but ewww. And also parts of Sandman (which I otherwise love to pieces).
I tend to prefer the European drawing styles, because it seems less muscle and plastic to me but there are some truly brilliant US-artists too like David Mack for example.
I love your icon</>
Thank you :). Benjamin Lacombe, he does wonderful creepy children's book artwork. Sadly no comics, I would instant buy if he ever did.
I tried to transfer a PDF of hers - and it was teeny tiny print, I gave up finally.
Pdf is horried for the Kindle (nice for the I-pad though), I was thinking of converting it to .mobi (the kindle format) there you can also change the size of the text and fond and so on. There is a freeware software called Calibre, which can convert basically everything into everything. PDF to reader sometimes does unfortunate things like writing the page numbers in the middle of the text but it still massively beats trying to navigate a PDF on the kindle.
Manga actually does go the gamut.
It really does, there is everything in Manga. It's weird because they actually react to the customers interests even if they don't conform with society. See the amount of gay love stories from women and read by women. Japanese society is quite homophobic in many ways but they don't seem to have the urge to suppress a literary subculture just because it is not targeting men. Or the fictional women advertisers imagine.