You can read Jacob’s whole impassioned comment at the link, but there were a couple of revealing remarks. Sometimes they crop to show you close-up details, but it’s a far cry from the aggressive layouts you see in a lot of comics productions.Īnd you know what? I don’t actually know the names of the designers of any of those art books I own - almost as if everyone involved thought the artist in question was more important than the designer.Īnyway, there’s a long comments thread at Comics Comics, and designer Jacob Covey disagrees strongly with Tim.
Books about Japanese prints show you the lovely Japanese prints. If you have a book about constructivist art posters, say, they show you the whole damn poster, because they figure that’s what you’re there for. I have a fair number of fine art books in the house, and you know, I don’t see any of them doing this crap. It’s unsettling to agree with Tim…but I agree with Tim. (Pretty much everything Jaime draws looks good, any way.) That is in fact a big part of my interest in such a book: tracking the artist’s development. I want to see _’s art! I want to see how the artist composed the image, and I don’t really care if it looks good or bad. (The same thing was done in Blake Bell’s Ditko bio and Chip Kidd’s Peanuts book, among others.) It’s an especially unwelcome practice in a “The Art of _” book. This probably demonstrates my ignorance, but I don’t like this trend of cutting up images, like an old movie pan ‘n scanned for VHS. Over at Comics Comics Tim Hodler dislikes the use of cropping in art books devoted to comics.
0 kommentar(er)
