Popgun Vol.2 Preview
by Dean Haspiel
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Posted by: Ken A.
07:02pm / Jul 23, 2008
07:02pm / Jul 23, 2008
Is it ironic? Perhaps double entendred, but irony is the opposite of what you expect; this would seem to be the exact opposite of THAT.
I did find the contrast of young Dan with a modern taxi somewhat jarring, but I'm guessing young Dan is something of a ghost or a personified memory fixed in that spot. I wrote an autbio story in college where I retconned a ghost I saw at my sleepaway camp as a kid into myself there six years later getting shitcanned. Since Dan is at least as clever as I am, no doubt he's capable of a similar literary device.
I did find the contrast of young Dan with a modern taxi somewhat jarring, but I'm guessing young Dan is something of a ghost or a personified memory fixed in that spot. I wrote an autbio story in college where I retconned a ghost I saw at my sleepaway camp as a kid into myself there six years later getting shitcanned. Since Dan is at least as clever as I am, no doubt he's capable of a similar literary device.
Posted by: Daniel Warner
10:25am / Jul 24, 2008
10:25am / Jul 24, 2008
There is something about your photo/drawing collage style that makes me say 'I don't like this' when I first scan the page. At first glance it seems kind of 'off.'
I had the same reaction when I first saw KELLY.
But then the layout or the unabashed, heartfelt story or the combination of the two pulls me into individual elements, and holds me there.
Your work reads like an open vein. As a reader that is something I absolutely need. It's a quality that seems to get phased out in comics as creators become more obsessed with story-craft and art-craft.
This is my favorite piece of yours so far. Kelly being a not-too-distant second.
I imagine you may have suffered some of the editorial abuses that come along with progressive aesthetic choices. I appreciate you making the effort to break out of the 'airtight craft' mentality.
This piece is exiting, and a reminder that there is still new ground to break.
I had the same reaction when I first saw KELLY.
But then the layout or the unabashed, heartfelt story or the combination of the two pulls me into individual elements, and holds me there.
Your work reads like an open vein. As a reader that is something I absolutely need. It's a quality that seems to get phased out in comics as creators become more obsessed with story-craft and art-craft.
This is my favorite piece of yours so far. Kelly being a not-too-distant second.
I imagine you may have suffered some of the editorial abuses that come along with progressive aesthetic choices. I appreciate you making the effort to break out of the 'airtight craft' mentality.
This piece is exiting, and a reminder that there is still new ground to break.
Posted by: Dan Goldman
09:20am / Jul 28, 2008
09:20am / Jul 28, 2008
Cheers, Dan... Getting comments like this really bores straight to the heart of all my "pushing' what people expect from comics, and your "open vein' image is so close to the truth: the music has to have fire and truth and heart or it means nothing.
We really have to count our blessings to be creating comics in these shiny times, compared even to 20, 10, 5 years ago: thanks to manga, our audiences are open-minded and hungry for all types of stories, the internet gives us an infinite spinner rack to display them and spread them across the planet without leaving our desks, and the new tools we use to tell our stories let us fearlessly react and reinvent what people thought comics could be in the first place. I could never be content letting my comics simply replicate/remix my childhood-reading nostalgias when the endless blue sky below our feet is so open and beautiful.
We really have to count our blessings to be creating comics in these shiny times, compared even to 20, 10, 5 years ago: thanks to manga, our audiences are open-minded and hungry for all types of stories, the internet gives us an infinite spinner rack to display them and spread them across the planet without leaving our desks, and the new tools we use to tell our stories let us fearlessly react and reinvent what people thought comics could be in the first place. I could never be content letting my comics simply replicate/remix my childhood-reading nostalgias when the endless blue sky below our feet is so open and beautiful.
01:44pm / Jul 23, 2008