The all-powerful LMG points to notes on Grant Morrison’s recent talk at the ICA [my emboldening]:

“Among the reminiscences and explainations of technique (“I write the background script, and when I get the pencils back, write the dialogue to match the art. It’s like working with actors.”), he explains why he thinks comics are so powerful as a medium.

“I think comics gain something from being drawn,” he says, “all that meticulous attention focussed on each line, on the pencils, and then the inks, it give them a special power,” and I pretty much miss what he says next while I think about that, and how it ties in with William Burroughs’ idea of energy ground down into and how maybe I’ve been misunderstanding what I’m doing when I draw out my strips (which, yes, I find difficult, frustrating, boring) and how maybe it isn’t about communicating well at all (sorry, Scott McCloud) but about the action of drawing over the story and thereby deepening and reiterating its its existence, making it bigger and more affecting simply by that action of paying minute attention, with your eyes, your hands, your pencil, your pen.

Deepening the groove until it resembles a canyon. I tune back in; he’s talking about sigils and how comics are sigils, or sigil-clusters. A sigil; the image or word which affects reality.”

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