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.

[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!