Text - Rhodes University

From the whimsical, poetic scripts written by Loewenthal and Mitchell, Sorfa learns to
play with language. His script does not obey the rules Gf grammar or spelling. Instead,
the text reflects the confusion and surrealism of the drawings, where strange beings exist,
and rules of perspective are warped (without being abandoned) [Fig 30]. Language has
been stretched in order to express the nature of the speaker beyond mere
characterisation. Lettering and spelling contextualise the narrator beyond what meaning
alone can do.
Figure 30 Sorfa Van Newman's Hot Coklit Cainder pi
Transitions and action are managed and narrated visually because the comic is conceived
visually. Blacks and whites are manipulated in such a way that the drawing often looks
more like writing or signs than pictures. The drawings are equivalent in their evolution
to the text: they are close to conventional reality, but mixed with comic conventions, and
taken further on their own terms. Eventually the whole comic no longer works by rules
other than its own. Elements in the story do not have to look like anything other than
that they belong to the comic. Language makes sense in the same way. With sophisticated
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