Several airplanes in my future in the next few weeks--I hope none exactly like this. However I think I might now be prepared. Taught two graphic memoirs this past quarter, Spiegelman's
Maus and Bechdel's
Fun Home, so I am now a terrible bore about semantic alternations between caps and handwritten script, space management of the individual frame, stylized temporal indicators (as in the first and third box here), deployment of traditional visual emblems--the big puffy Boreas-cheeks blowing out the winds here--and...---you get the picture.