Comments on: black and white http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white News about Alison Bechdel's comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, and her graphic novel Fun Home Sun, 20 May 2012 23:11:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=174 By: mldg yhce http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-108236 mldg yhce Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:22:36 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-108236 jwupzgy bnxcwy hxnvuq jnclde pblgsxy ghptb gewovdj jwupzgy bnxcwy hxnvuq jnclde pblgsxy ghptb gewovdj

]]> By: taylor http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3400 taylor Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:46:27 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3400 I'm excited! just surprised that Forbidden Planet in nyc doesn't carry the DTWOF collections...I'll have to amazon them! I’m excited! just surprised that Forbidden Planet in nyc doesn’t carry the DTWOF collections…I’ll have to amazon them!

]]> By: Deb http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3363 Deb Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:39:50 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3363 taylor, you are in for a real treat! Enjoy! taylor, you are in for a real treat! Enjoy!

]]> By: taylor http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3362 taylor Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:21:29 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3362 This reminds me of a passage from Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" about a 'cat-shaped hole in the universe.' I bought your graphic novel the other day and loved it. I'm so happy to support someone so recently coming into well-deserved fame. Now I get to happily wade into your years of previous work, as "Fun Home" was my introduction to you. This reminds me of a passage from Arundhati Roy’s “The God of Small Things” about a ‘cat-shaped hole in the universe.’

I bought your graphic novel the other day and loved it. I’m so happy to support someone so recently coming into well-deserved fame. Now I get to happily wade into your years of previous work, as “Fun Home” was my introduction to you.

]]> By: brynn http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3349 brynn Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:50:47 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3349 Very cool photos!!! Very cool photos!!!

]]> By: Danyell http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3326 Danyell Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:30:36 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3326 Negative space is one of the most important things you'll ever learn in an intro art class. It's so profound and zen. "I want you to draw what isn't there, Grasshopper." Negative space is one of the most important things you’ll ever learn in an intro art class. It’s so profound and zen. “I want you to draw what isn’t there, Grasshopper.”

]]> By: mlk http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3307 mlk Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:14:14 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3307 correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't procrastination part of the artistic process? if you use negative space in the next strip, or a cat, this bit of diversion will have been *totally justified*! and if you don't, well, this instance of procrastination will probably bear fruit *somewhere* down the line . . . I want to be careful, though, not to be TOO supportive of what easily becomes a character flaw. it's not such a good idea to indulge in procrastination with abandon. hard to know sometimes how much is too much -- seems to have something to do with whether it interferes with other matters of importance. your nearest and dearest probably have ideas about when it's time to stop. if they aren't clamoring about things that are being neglected, maybe you're OK for now? and deadlines figure into it, too. happy drawing . . . or photographing . . . or inking . . . or wherever you are with the next strips! correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t procrastination part of the artistic process?

if you use negative space in the next strip, or a cat, this bit of diversion will have been *totally justified*! and if you don’t, well, this instance of procrastination will probably bear fruit *somewhere* down the line . . .

I want to be careful, though, not to be TOO supportive of what easily becomes a character flaw. it’s not such a good idea to indulge in procrastination with abandon.

hard to know sometimes how much is too much — seems to have something to do with whether it interferes with other matters of importance. your nearest and dearest probably have ideas about when it’s time to stop. if they aren’t clamoring about things that are being neglected, maybe you’re OK for now? and deadlines figure into it, too.

happy drawing . . . or photographing . . . or inking . . . or wherever you are with the next strips!

]]> By: SP http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3306 SP Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:56:03 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3306 You're right, she does look like Tintin. The lock of hair is in just the right place. You’re right, she does look like Tintin. The lock of hair is in just the right place.

]]> By: Deb http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3305 Deb Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:30:49 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3305 I love it when the characters step out of their strip characters and talk to the reading audience. They kvetch about thier wages, roles and spotlight times in the strip, lines and futures in the strip. I thought that was a stoke of genius and it added a certain dimension to MY relationship with each character. I love it when the characters step out of their strip characters and talk to the reading audience. They kvetch about thier wages, roles and spotlight times in the strip, lines and futures in the strip. I thought that was a stoke of genius and it added a certain dimension to MY relationship with each character.

]]> By: Andrew B http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3300 Andrew B Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:10:34 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/black-and-white#comment-3300 The cool thing about the cat photo is that you can see the cat's shadow from the flash on Alison's leg and foot. So there's an empty space, throwing a shadow. (No, I have not been smoking anything, and I still think that's cool.) The cool thing about the Cathedral photo is that Alison looks like Tintin. As far as DTWOF in different styles, my favorite is the very PoMo strip from the era of the Clinton impeachment, when we're introduced to a character called "the cartoonist". She winds up blowing all her circuits and producing a single panel, Family Circle-style, in which Mo is telling Lois, "See, Lois? Fornication is a sin!". The cool thing about the cat photo is that you can see the cat’s shadow from the flash on Alison’s leg and foot. So there’s an empty space, throwing a shadow. (No, I have not been smoking anything, and I still think that’s cool.)

The cool thing about the Cathedral photo is that Alison looks like Tintin.

As far as DTWOF in different styles, my favorite is the very PoMo strip from the era of the Clinton impeachment, when we’re introduced to a character called “the cartoonist”. She winds up blowing all her circuits and producing a single panel, Family Circle-style, in which Mo is telling Lois, “See, Lois? Fornication is a sin!”.

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