Comics and counterpoint
Apr. 14th, 2006 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylThe BBC are re-running the conversations between John Eliot Gardiner and Philip Pullman, first broadcast back in December as part of the Radio 3 Bach week.
When asked by Mark Lawson about tempo in literature, Pullman says an interesting thing: that comics are the first literary medium where, thanks to the ability to juxtapose different narrative elements in a single frame, it's possible to create something equivalent to counterpoint. Fascinating. I knew there was a reason for my love of both fugues and comics.
When asked by Mark Lawson about tempo in literature, Pullman says an interesting thing: that comics are the first literary medium where, thanks to the ability to juxtapose different narrative elements in a single frame, it's possible to create something equivalent to counterpoint. Fascinating. I knew there was a reason for my love of both fugues and comics.
