Deep stuff
Philip Pullman spent his childhood in thrall to the weekly delivery of the Eagle, Wizard and Beano. Now he unveils his own new weekly comic serial, The Adventures Of John Blake. To see the first installment click here
Saturday May 24, 2008
The Guardian
The comics form has all the vivid immediacy of the cinema, and all the private advantages of the book. Comics can do anything, it seems to me, and for all that their history is rich, it is also very short: 100 years covers most of it. Comics have hardly begun.
I'd long toyed with the idea of writing a story in comics form, but I didn't begin seriously until my publisher created The DFC, a new weekly comic, and found an artist for me to work with. I can draw only things that keep still, and comics are full of movement, so my story would have to be a collaboration. A good thing, too: I couldn't possibly draw the scenes I've asked John Aggs to draw, and the story is all the better for his part in it.
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