When writers and artists work together to bring out the best in each other, what I get to read is simply terrific! As Frank Miller once said when he read a Batman comic, “I just fall in!” I lose track of time and place, and I’m just inside the story being told!Īlong the same lines, I often get asked what I would recommend to a new reader. Granted, not all comics are created in exactly the same ways, but the best books to me are the ones that I like to call “the marriage of writing and art.” Now that my understanding of printing has progressed, I understand the whole process better. To me as a young person, it was just magic! Somehow, someway, it all just appeared on the page in ways I couldn’t understand. It takes someone writing a script, then an artist portraying that story in visuals on the page. When I was younger, I didn’t understand what it took to put a comic book together. I also like listening to audiobooks! But when I sit down to read a comic, that combination of writing and visuals engages me on levels I like to experience! I mean, I enjoy text-only novels at times. It’s unlike other storytelling-it just grabs me in ways other kinds of books and tales just don’t! I often get asked this question, especially around the upcoming Free Comic Book Day on the first Saturday in May-what is it about comics that makes me want to read them? Well, there’s something special when a great story is told through beautiful art.
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