Text - Rhodes University

The text of Bone Staircase, by Freudian Slit Productions, imitates a certain genre of
writing, not very successfully, but the integration of text and 'pictures is interesting. Layout
and pace are determined directly by the demands of this particular script, not by any
convention. The artist maintains a conciousness of the motion of reading, and
consequently of the movement of the comic, which indicates an awareness of the reader,
of the process of communication [fig 3]. The intricate structure of layout, plot, and
thoughts, is quite unusually not complicated by intricate drawings.
Andrew Macklin is an original contributor to Komiksoc, who makes almost no use of any
conventional comic techniques. Vampire is an illustrated monologue, with deliberately
archaic text, lettering, drawing, composition, and layout. Partly due to the amount of
detail in the words and pictures, it is difficult to read the visual and verbal texts together:
the reader must continually interrupt the reading of one to jump to the other [fig 4].
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