Is cycling for geeks?

Littigator

I agree with DDD, graphic novels aren't really comparable to novels. Your mind is processing two very different inputs with a graphic novel and as such I think your level of conciousness is different to when you are simply reading text.

In a novel your level of conciousness lowers to a semi-dreamlike state whereby your imagination puts the words into pictures in your head.

This is not so with a grpahic novel, but the appreciation of the artwork and the imagery in the pictures still conjures some very evocative feelings.

Jeez I can write some guff sometimes

il_principe

Littigator wrote:

I agree with DDD, graphic novels aren't really comparable to novels. Your mind is processing two very different inputs with a graphic novel and as such I think your level of conciousness is different to when you are simply reading text.

In a novel your level of conciousness lowers to a semi-dreamlike state whereby your imagination puts the words into pictures in your head.

This is not so with a grpahic novel, but the appreciation of the artwork and the imagery in the pictures still conjures some very evocative feelings.

Jeez I can write some guff sometimes

+1

roger_merriman

Littigator wrote:

I agree with DDD, graphic novels aren't really comparable to novels. Your mind is processing two very different inputs with a graphic novel and as such I think your level of conciousness is different to when you are simply reading text.

In a novel your level of conciousness lowers to a semi-dreamlike state whereby your imagination puts the words into pictures in your head.

This is not so with a grpahic novel, but the appreciation of the artwork and the imagery in the pictures still conjures some very evocative feelings.

Jeez I can write some guff sometimes

as this is a geek thread, i find it quite intresting that i will read audio books but i can't stand ebooks oh i love the tech of some of them but i just don't like reading with a screen, much prefure books...

Clever Pun

DonDaddyD wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

Oh yes I'm with Jash on the books >comics thing. I've read Brian Lumleys Necroscope as a book and graphic novel and the book was so much better imo. The film is being made apparently, which I suspect will be dross :x

I don't think books or comics/graphic novels are better than each other. I don't think they are mostly comparable.

What I think is that they are two different ways/methods of story telling to be appreciated independantly for their form and mostly not comparable.

but it's the same story so they have to be comparable it's just a different way of delivering it.

With nearly all films that have been adapted from novels you will hear... Not as good as the book or better than the book.

With the Watchmen you'll hear not as good as the comic/graphic novel... as has been said with 300 etc

if it is the same story of course its comparable; some people will prefer a certain format but so much depends on who created that format and if the 2ndry format enhances/is true to the 1st

nwallace

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DonDaddyD

Clever Pun wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

Oh yes I'm with Jash on the books >comics thing. I've read Brian Lumleys Necroscope as a book and graphic novel and the book was so much better imo. The film is being made apparently, which I suspect will be dross :x

I don't think books or comics/graphic novels are better than each other. I don't think they are mostly comparable.

What I think is that they are two different ways/methods of story telling to be appreciated independantly for their form and mostly not comparable.

but it's the same story so they have to be comparable it's just a different way of delivering it.

With nearly all films that have been adapted from novels you will hear... Not as good as the book or better than the book.

With the Watchmen you'll hear not as good as the comic/graphic novel... as has been said with 300 etc

if it is the same story of course its comparable; some people will prefer a certain format but so much depends on who created that format and if the 2ndry format enhances/is true to the 1st

The story is the same, its the delivery that isn't directly comparable. Sure you can look at how the film, comic or book did it but they would have to deliver the story differently because they are different forms of text.

I'm a firm believer of "There is no substitute for your imagination". But to give an example - you cannot compare the use of colour, narration, mise-en-scene, camera angles, sound track used in films (all of which is done to tell the story) to what is written in a book. I don't believe you can compare the union of imagery and text in a comic/graphic novel to the text in a novel. But you can compare/analyse how each has chosen to deliver the story... so I've contradicted my own point....

I guess it's not a direct comparison is what I'm trying to say so I don't try to compare. I know I'm going to get a different kind of story telling from a comic from a book. In the same way I know I'm going to get a different kind of film from two different genre's so I wouldn't compare those either.