"George Pérez and the Classical Narrative Style" article in the latest Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society Vol 4 #3 (Fall 2020)From muse.jhu.edu
INKS: THE JOURNAL OF THE COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY Vol 4 #3 (Fall 2020)
Ohio State University Press
Abstract: This paper examines the commercially popular but critically neglected artist George Pérez as a means of developing a critical apparatus for studying artists who work within collaborative and industrial systems of comics production. Pérez’s comics are exemplars of the classical narrative style of comics art, refining a set of formal practices that adapt page and panel layouts to match their contents in a manner akin to classical Hollywood cinema, deploying formalism for narrative purposes. Pérez and his peers also display an abiding interest in the mediated image, incorporating the visual frames and narrative strategies of newspapers, film ...
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