Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen’s Phonogram is a stunning series. I enjoyed Volume 1. I love Volume 2. But it’s multi-layered, complicated timeframe stories all happening across one particular night at a club may have taken their toll on artist Jamie McKelvie. The evidence?
Well, does this look like the work of a sound mind?
According to Jamie: “This is, more or less, the chronology of the night during which The Singles Club takes place – with each issue on a row, and time passing as we move along to the right. I say more or less because some pages skip over several minutes between panels, and others focus on those minutes, so the only way to truly get each page to line up in time would be to cut them all up and do it by panel rather than by page.”
According to Gillen: “….quite the picture of a nervous breakdown in progress. It isn’t quite perfect, but it’s as close as you can get without actually cutting the pages into individual panels. Since each story is a single subjective story, there’s some bendy time-isms.”
Nah, only joking. The lovely Jamie is as sane as the rest of us.
Oh.
Oh, dear.
Sun, Aug 16, 2009
Art and animation, Comics and cartoons