tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3290662109425559453.post8831957052708244989..comments2024-03-28T18:17:48.380-04:00Comments on Satisfactory Comics: What We Have Been Reading #3: Britten & BrülightlyMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16718383312170645138noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3290662109425559453.post-7554846846068541562010-09-21T10:02:04.143-04:002010-09-21T10:02:04.143-04:00About that "enjambment" effect:
I notic...About that "enjambment" effect:<br /><br />I noticed a panel in <i>Maus</i> the other day that didn't so much <i>bother</i> me as catch my attention. The top of the panel has two speech balloons, one of which reads:<br /><br /><b>YOU MUST BE<br />ARTIE. I'M MRS.<br />KARP. WE'RE<br />NEIGHBORS.</b><br /><br />And the other reads:<br /><br /><b>YES. MY DAD MEN-<br />TIONED THAT YOU'VE<br />LOOKED AFTER HIM<br />WHILE MALA'S GONE.</b><br /><br />Both the break (with a period) after "MRS." and the hyphenation of "MENTIONED" struck me as strange (and maybe suspect) decisions. Spiegelman's usually a very careful letterer. But I could also tell that he was straining to get the dialogue into a pretty small space.Isaachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06529618611083147320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3290662109425559453.post-70265100265983015932010-09-21T01:14:25.332-04:002010-09-21T01:14:25.332-04:00Very careful post, that, Kaiser; I especially took...Very careful post, that, Kaiser; I especially took to heart your comment about the C-shaped swoop in her letterforms ("researcher" was asking for trouble!).<br /><br />One other thing about her lettering which reminded me of an issue that bugs me maybe more than it should. Namely: while word balloons are almost always prose, rather than verse, let alone heavily end-stopped verse, I find that I dislike it when text is set in such a way as to produce jarring "enjambments" (or "carriage returns," as it were). <br /><br />Maybe if the lines were wider within a word balloon, allowing for more text, I would be less bothered, but if, for example, there is a phrase like "find out," I vastly prefer for "out" to be on the same line as "find" (to take an example from one of the panels you posted). Maybe that's just me...Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16718383312170645138noreply@blogger.com