Une discussion de Dave Gibbons (Watchmen) et Frank Quitely (New X-men) sur la bd numérique......
http://www.tcj.com/?p=1410&page=3
non seulement ils disent des choses très vraies, mais aussi, à un moment, y'a ça:
Gibbons:
I was looking at a guy on DeviantArt who’s done a couple of short experiments and that, to me, feels like there’s something really good going on there.
Quitely:
Is it something like Balak?
Gibbons:
Balak, yeah, exactly! We’ve been looking at exactly the same thing, then. It’s so simple — not simple — but it’s so elegant and so obvious in a way that it seems something that you could very easily do.
han bordel j'avoue que je suis rouge comme une tomate
autre morceau frappé au coin du bon sens par gibbons:
The thing that’s really wonderful about it is that, actually, it brings you back to basics — it brings you back to the basic strength of a drawing that can register really quickly in a way that there is no place for over-rendering; it’s images that people are going to take in really quite quickly. Again, it has to be a good story. I don’t think that you can disguise a bad story with wonderful art in that kind of arena. So, it feels interesting to me because it is using present-day technology and delivery methods, but I think it also throws artists back on their basic skills and, as you were saying, their honesty in the sense that you’re reading something that is really felt by the person who’s doing.
quitely:
There’s a thing about comics where not only the last page of the issue should be a cliffhanger, but to some extent, there’s an old-fashioned view that the last panel in each page should be a mini-cliffhanger and you actually get that in these webcomics where you simply get one frame at a time and it relies on you clicking when you’re ready to move on. I’ve also seen an interesting example of somebody experimenting with webcomics whereby each time you click, sometimes it changes the picture you’re looking at to an entirely new frame in the story but, sometimes, it just adds the first speech bubble and then the next click will actually change the expression on the person that’s just been spoken to. It’s just a little experiment using a lot of different techniques and it’s actually very interesting, but at no point does it run away with you, you click through it as and when you’re ready, so you’re setting the pace, but also bits of it are one single frame and other bits of it are several frames, one after the other. It’s pretty interesting to see some of the things people have been thinking about.
gibbons résume tout de cette manière:
the click is the gutter
