Why Ernest Hemingway Makes a Great Subject for Comic Book Artists
Comic Book Artists Great American Writer December 14, 2020 Comic book creators and Hemingway share a natural kinship. The comic book page demands an economy of words, and—for multi-panel stories—a lot of the action takes place between the panels. It’s an interactive reading experience, much like Hemingway’s work. It demands that you interpret and bring yourself to the text, like Hemingway’s less-is-more “iceberg theory,” in graphic form. In Death in the Afternoon(1932), Hemingway expounded on his theory that what is left out of a story gives it power, that the act of omis...
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