Viva Brighton Issue #57 November 2017
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DESIGN<br />
...................................<br />
they were going to change everything<br />
– that the comics medium<br />
was going to be accepted<br />
in the mainstream... Of course,<br />
that fell flat on its face because<br />
no-one was actually producing<br />
diverse material.”<br />
It took another ten to fifteen<br />
years for producers to catch up,<br />
says Tim, but the transition is<br />
almost complete. We now enjoy<br />
a far broader range of genres in<br />
comics, including non-fiction<br />
memoirs, journalism, science<br />
and economics. “Anything you<br />
can do in prose,” says Tim, “you<br />
can probably do in comics.”<br />
Tim credits the internet with<br />
our new-found interest. “People<br />
are a lot more visually literate<br />
than they were,” he says. “That<br />
combination of what comics<br />
can do - conveying a lot of<br />
information very quickly and on<br />
a subconscious level - works for<br />
the new generation of internet<br />
users.”<br />
With this in mind, Tim says<br />
everybody should have a go<br />
at creating one. “You could<br />
do a strip about a triangle and<br />
a square and a circle. That’s<br />
enough,” he says. “You don’t<br />
have to be a great artist to tell a<br />
story... That’s what that book’s<br />
about; it’s saying: give it a go.”<br />
Chloë King<br />
Tim and Dave will be signing<br />
copies of How Comics Work at<br />
Dave’s Comics on Saturday the<br />
18th from 12-2pm. sexdrugsandcomicbooks.blogspot.co.uk<br />
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