"Chivalry" by Gaiman and Doran
Oct. 29th, 2022 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigidI (finally) read "Chivalry," the short story written by Neil Gaiman and translated to comic form by the incredible Colleen Doran.
I was reading it, absolutely loving it, but the whole time I thought about how incredibly familiar the art is... like I've read it before. Like it's existed for years. I wondered if maybe I'd seen design sketches... I follow her on twitter and she often shares works in progress, old works, new works. All kinds of stuff! She's absolutely an artist I'd love to buy original art from. So I just assumed that I'd seen it before.
And then I read the epilogue and she talked about her original attempts at translating the story to comic and they are... incredibly different from what ultimately was published. So... I don't know! But it seems so very familiar, comfortably familiar.
The most interesting thing about the epilogue is she talked about the physical process of creating the art, the materials she used, and some of the watercolors and inks are slightly iridescent. That doesn't show up in a scan of the material. It isn't printed on the page. The only way to see it is to look at the actual physical pages.
Anyone who owns/sees the original pages will see something that nobody else has seen. That is fantastic. That is amazing. I love it.
I love Colleen Doran so much.
I was reading it, absolutely loving it, but the whole time I thought about how incredibly familiar the art is... like I've read it before. Like it's existed for years. I wondered if maybe I'd seen design sketches... I follow her on twitter and she often shares works in progress, old works, new works. All kinds of stuff! She's absolutely an artist I'd love to buy original art from. So I just assumed that I'd seen it before.
And then I read the epilogue and she talked about her original attempts at translating the story to comic and they are... incredibly different from what ultimately was published. So... I don't know! But it seems so very familiar, comfortably familiar.
The most interesting thing about the epilogue is she talked about the physical process of creating the art, the materials she used, and some of the watercolors and inks are slightly iridescent. That doesn't show up in a scan of the material. It isn't printed on the page. The only way to see it is to look at the actual physical pages.
Anyone who owns/sees the original pages will see something that nobody else has seen. That is fantastic. That is amazing. I love it.
I love Colleen Doran so much.
