A book without words., The Arrival Options

[CapCaDancer]

The Arrival, by Shaun Tan

If you consider this a book or not, I fell in love with it.
Beautifully illustrated pages...wonderful story...a world so unlike our own...
read a REALLY GOOD description here:

really good description here!

Has anyone else read it? Er...looked at it? I dunno if you'd call it reading.

[NoSex]

It's a comic book.

And, I've never read it.

[CapCaDancer]

...it is NOT a comic book.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/comic%20book

"A book of comic stips or cartoons..."

it is NOT funny and it is NOT cartoons.



It's art, honestly.

[NoSex]

...it is NOT a comic book.
It's art, honestly.

Ohhhh shit! No you didn't! No you didn't!

com.ics (kom'iks) n. plural in form, used with a singular verb. 1. Juxtaposed pictoral and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer. [1]

The secret is not in what the definition says but what it doesn't say! || For example, our definition says nothing about superheroes or funny animals. Nothing about fantasy/science fiction or reader age. No genres are listed in our definition, no types of subject matter, no styles of prose or poetry. || Nothing is said about paper and ink. No printing process is mentioned. Printing itself isn't even specified!2 Nothing is said about technical pens or bristol board or Windsor & Newton Finest Sable Series 7 Number 2 Brushes!3 No materials are ruled out by our definition. No tools are prohibited. || There is no mention of black lines and flat colored ink. No calls for exaggerated anatomy or for representational art of any kind. No schools of art are banished by our definition, no philosophies, no movements, no ways of seeing are out of bounds!

Comic books have been stigmatized; Fight the power!

[CapCaDancer]

Fine, you're right. I shouldn't have posted the definition. I'm sorry.

Call it a comic book, call it whatever you want.
I just hope you weren't calling it childish or on a lower level than art.

I honestly don't care what you call it. It's a beautiful book.

[*yrrnotelekktric*]

Wow. I`ve never heard of this. Looks interesting. I want to read it.

[markmejia]

I'd love to check this out. I suck at reading anyway, ha.

[lkajsfklajskds]

It's a comic book.

Not al comic books are stupid, check out Persepolis.

[CapCaDancer]

Not al comic books are stupid, check out Persepolis.

Hmmmm never heard of that, but I looked it up and now I'm interested. I'm definately going to check that out. Thank youuu I love finding new things to read.

[NoSex]

Not al comic books are stupid, check out Persepolis.

Assuming makes an...

[CapCaDancer]

... out of u and ming?

I thought it was when you "assume" you...

unless you weren't talking about that at all. Then ignore that I said anything.

[NoSex]

... out of u and ming?

I thought it was when you "assume" you...

unless you weren't talking about that at all. Then ignore that I said anything.

Ha, no, you're right. We all get the idea.

[Heathasm]

wether its a comic book or not thats not the point. it looks cool, i like stuff like that

[NoSex]

wether its a comic book or not thats not the point. it looks cool, i like stuff like that

Would you call a movie a slide show?

(p.s. for this analogy to operate correctly, you have to avoid the reality that a movie essentially is a slide show, just with many slides that move very quickly. Maybe I should have said flip book... yeah.)

But, yeah, it looks alright.

[missnh]

Interesting. Looks like the sort of thing I'd pick up at Barnes and Nobles and read in the store.