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[melsbels]

so...i started writing/drawing a graphic novel

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[thesameheight]

this is awesome!!!!!!!!!

[melsbels]

i know! it sort of just happened! but i'm wicked excited about it right now. have you read Blankets? its going to be Blankets-esque, maybe? similar tone, but slightly older feel. and a chick perspective, obvs.

[american_noise]

you, melissa, are maaaaaybe sort of my hero.

seriously.

[melsbels]

so we need to talk blindness.

blindness...comic?! AH! I'm going crazy!

but actually, blindness...PLAY?! AH!

I was thinking...maybe...we could both do like a one act version of our own interpretations of the same book. or a section of the same book and present them together? yes? totes experimental. who knows. i thought that might be kind of cool though? because i know you were talking a lot about audience perspective and i'm talking imagery...sort of siti style compilation perhaps?

maybe we could even do something with the same actors in each piece? i donno, i donno.

i need to re-read but i'm deep into east of eden right now (holyfuckingshitilovethisbook) and a bunch of comics.

and you are sort of my hero as well :)

[lady_kerowyn]

Um, FRIGGIN' SWEET! Post some of it--I'd love to see your drawings. *is an art whore*

[melsbels]

they're sort of just thumb nails right now haha but once i get going maybe i'll post some :)

[whimsy_worm]

ummm...if you did blindness as a play...let's just say I'd jump up and down crazily.
And, there is this great book called 'The Arrival' By Shaun Tan. It's a graphic chapter book? It's not quite category of picture book either...it's unique and it tells a story in frames, but there isn't any dialogue. I was inspired to begin my own in the dull Cape Cod this Sunday.
Graphic novella sounds awesome!