@@ some thoughts on comics in a letter to Scott McCloud*.
Hi Scott, After reading and thoroughly enjoying both "Understanding Comics" and the "I Can't Stop Thinking!" series, I couldn't wait to get my hands on "Reinventing Comics". I did, earlier today. I sat down in a quiet room and read it straight through with no interruptions. It was wonderful! I was completely engrossed in it. As I finished the book and put it down, I wandered outside in somewhat of a daze. Everything outside somehow seemed brighter, more vibrant, more full of motion than it did before I started reading. Thanks so much for such a wonderful experience. Anyway, the reason I'm writing is to follow up on two of the concepts in your book which particularly caught my interest. The first is your allusion to sculptural comics -- I can just imagine several sculptures or sculptural scenes which in sequence told a story. Obviously the presentational ability of such comics would be limited to museums, but I was curious if you had run into anything like this. Thanks for any information you can provide. Second, towards the end of the book you describe a vast electronic comic which was made up of thousands of individual panels. I couldn't help but catch the similarity to photomosaics, the beautiful pictures (which I assume you've seen) made up from thousands of tiny ones. (http://www.photomosaic.com/ if you don't know what I'm talking about.) Anyway, I thought it would quite awesome to build a photomosaic where each picture was a panel in a large comic and together they formed some appropriate large picture (the cover perhaps?). If you're interested, I think I might be able to get you in touch with Rob Silvers (the inventor of photomosaics) and perhaps you could work together on a collaboration of some sort. Please let me know what you think of these ideas. Even if you don't have time to respond in full, I'd appreciate some sort of response. Even if it was just "got your letter"...
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