What makes for good storytelling ?

[comicartfan]

I know people like Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Greg Rucka, Will Eisner, etc....are universally (usually) praised as great comic writers, but I have to wonder what makes for great comic art storytelling.

 

I know what I think looks cool, but that isn't the same thing.

 

How does one follow a comic book or graphic novel and know it's good ? Or even great ?

 

 

 

[adamstrange]

When you realize that you've stopped thinking about the words and pictures and are completely immersed in "the story". Basically you only realize it in retrospect.

[shiverbones]

well said! (thumbs u

[CAP Freak]

When you realize that you've stopped thinking about the words and pictures and are completely immersed in "the story". Basically you only realize it in retrospect.

Definitely. I'll be reading a comic and will get up to get something to eat and while walking back to where I left the comic, not remember if I was reading a comic or watching a television show.

[shiverbones]

the only book to really do that for me recently was Blankets. Holy , what a GN!

[dkao-migration]

When the storytelling transcends the medium it is on. Its exactly the same effect when you watch movies. When you get into the movie world, you don't realize its a movie. When I get into the comic world, I don't realize I am reading a comic.

[mister_not_so_nice]

When you quit wondering which pages you 'have to' buy, which pages are 'o.k.' and which pages are filler and just read the story, darnit

[MedicAR]

There have been some great descriptions here, which makes mine seem all the more cheap and tawdry. Great storytelling versus bad storytelling is like art versus pornography. I can't tell you the difference, but I'll know it when I see it.

[djpinkpanther67]

You know it's good when you are looking forward to the next issue, and that it sucks when you stop collecting the title (Or you vomit slightly in your mouth)