Breccia toys with drawing to make you read. He covers Ahmed’s eyes, and turns the other “terrorists” into shadows. In panel two Phillippe’s back is slightly off center, it stops the arc of the ground into Ahmed’s hand of tendons and brushstrokes of equal weight as Phillippe’s body in the last panel isolating the middle. The tension in the tendons becoming the whole point of the sequence, while telling the story.
Category: Drawing
Empty white space and bullet holes, no cracks in the rocks, no dirt up turned just black dots, we the reader have make the connection, the space of the story is broken by the flat design. Then wounded GI Joe, and a landscape, stretched and desolate, no diagonals and no perspective almost just a line across the bottom of the page, it becomes an end.
Doing 100 words a day to make me think about comics
Alberto Breccia is one of those artist artists, his leaves visual people gasping and no one else seems to care.
A short article on Breccia by Italian/Argentenian cartoonist Loris Z is here.
He linked to a series of articles by English cartoonist Matt Brooker here.
Reading their notes I was left with the stunning fact that I have more of his work, then either of them. So in stunning disregard of copyright I’m posting a story I used for one of my comics classes final lesson plans .
How to draw manga from Tezuka
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