"Wordless Sequence" [Reflections On Book - 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design Stephen Heller and Veronique Vienne - # 58]
From pictographs to tapestries, to scenes cut into stone;
From frame to frame each story flows inviting eyes to roam
From left to right and back again, like painted words on page;
Sequential is the narrative conveyed from age to age.The Reds and Blacks sought rise to power in Russia in its day;
A story of two squares of such began a printed way;
To spin a yarn like comic strips, streamed billboards from your car;
Our world now graphic novel has – quite popular they are.Then Disney flipped a book of them – invented Disney’s world
Of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck – gave Fantasy a whirl;
It’s now a way, a cousin to the concept I now chase –
Augment the novel’s text with pix and graphics in their place.I start to get the picture now – I stand on shoulders broad,
As I augment the text I write, to some it will seem odd;
From this I learn, some animate without a shift of pix,
For we can coax the eye to think “it’s moving” with our tricks.Thanks Lord for this.
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