“Ghost Squirrel” succumbed to a fairly common creative death: putting ambition before a defined scope. There’s a lot of really good individual scenes in here, but I don’t believe it would have ever held together as a focused narrative whole. So, time to call it methinks. (plus I’m working on the much stronger Falling City!)
Looked up the tag “European Comics” on tumblr and (not surprisingly) a lot of naked women showed up…but isn’t that why we love them? The “Valentina” by Guido Crepax series barely counts as “comics” in my view, it’s certainly not narrative, but boy is the line work pretty.
One more manga panel for posterity. Sometimes relatively simple is the most satisfying à la Katsu! by Mitsuru Adachi.
Hajime no ippo impresses with the sheer quantity of motion lines.
Two days in to my theme week of and I’m already cheating! So not quite “action lines” but they do give the reader a great sense of movement. Both panels are from the awesome and trippy “Ultra Heaven” by Koike Keiichi.
Doing a study of manga motion lines. Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue has some great heavy duty action shots (above), but it’s the subtle effects that really stand out (below).
Hans Rickheit is one of my favorite graphic novel makers. His panel flow is akin to film language, lyrical and well paced. His narratives are mysterious and beautiful in their own extremely dark and f–ked up way.
And the ink work is fantastic.