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cartoonish, all look very similar. Sorfa tries to inject surreality into the real world.<br />
Figure 37 Sorfa The Killing of Bunion<br />
Sorfa's Spiders is again produced from one of Mitchell's scripts, with it's whimsical,<br />
playful and inventive use of language.<br />
The script uses real people, not cartoon characters, so a balance has to be found between<br />
cartooning and a more photographic approach. Sorfa's solution lies in the idiosyncracy<br />
of his drawing style, which allows him leeway to use more cartoonish and exaggerated<br />
methods of depiction than a realistic approach would [fig 38]. Because it is consistent<br />
throughout, it becomes the character's reality [fig 39]. Anything is possible; they aquire<br />
the solidity of photographically realised characters, because they are consistent with their<br />
environment. This is a solution to a particular problem that has plagued Sorfa's cornics<br />
since he started simplifying his drawing. The only choices were plagiarism of a complete<br />
style, or development of his own.<br />
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