Word: visualizers
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...Some tales are like visual limericks - poetry with a gag at the end. Take "Dr. Cranbury," for example, one of the more straight-forward bits. Like many of the tales in "Cusp" it's a single page in length. A professorial older gentlemen gets out of his car, dropping a piece of paper. Suddenly a colleague runs up to Cranbury and thrusts something in his face, shouting "look!" "It's a leaf," states Cranbury, flinching at the man's enthusiasm. Then the stranger, who is apparently one of those irritating people who sees "magic" in everything, says "No? Look...
...Eros" is the way Herpich uses the forms contained in a panel to mimic those of its predecessor. A fallen ice-cream cone transposes into an eye and a nose; the fluttering wings of a bug cut to a matching close-up of the ears of the jackass. These visual puns are the equivalent of clever poetic wordplay, but unique to comix. Herpich, who's pen and ink drawings are otherwise fairly simple, has a gift for the infinitely variable patterns of comix. Through repetition and pauses, panels that repeat something from before or else contain nothing at all, Herpich...
...Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition” effectively demonstrates that Buddhist iconographic conventions remained essentially the same from one country to the next over several centuries. Said Mowry, “I wanted to make sure the objects worked well together both intellectually and visually.” And, indeed, the exhibit’s visual variety and geographical diversity provides both aesthetic pleasure and insight into the history of Buddhism...
...many ways a character in this book,” Cohen says, holding up a blown-up black and white photograph from her personal album. Such photographs appearing throughout the book provide a visual orientation to the era. Visuals like advertisements and billboards were crucial contributors to the mass consumption of the post-war decades, Cohen says...
...element in attracting men is providing them with a “visual,” Fox says, adding that she will not print inaccurate descriptions. “If we say someone is stunning, they may be stunning for their age. A 55-year-old will not be the same kind of stunning as a 26-year-old,” she adds. “We have to come up with a figure in public life—it could be Eleanor Roosevelt, but readers need a visual...