It's taking everything in my power to resist doing a twitter essay on Chester Brown, footnotes, & textuality in comics.
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Replying to @dylanhorrocks
@dylanhorrocks@HeerJeet I thought about this a lot myself; Sim would work explicitly in both ways, both 'optional' and 'compulsory' text.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @snubpollard
@dylanhorrocks@HeerJeet (Not that you ever *have* to read everything, as most followers of The Latter Days reconciled to themselves.)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @snubpollard
@dylanhorrocks@HeerJeet To me, the difference in Mary Wept is that I find the text replicative and often at odds with the comics' appeal.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @snubpollard
@dylanhorrocks@HeerJeet It certainly doesn't offer characterization, as in Jaka's Story, nor really does it give-and-take a la Reads.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @snubpollard
@dylanhorrocks@HeerJeet Jeet is right to characterize it as fundamentally optional... but, I think Brown doesn't mean it that way.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @snubpollard
@snubpollard@dylanhorrocks "Trust the tale, not the teller." D.H. Lawrence (who, mind you, Brown hates).1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@snubpollard The irony in this conversation is that these days Brown's as much an essayist as a storyteller.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@dylanhorrocks @snubpollard Yeah, but the texts, as texts, aren't anywhere nearly as good as the comic-as-comics.
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