DaveTheCrane / electricomic-aengus

Demo electricomic based on the second adaptation of WB Yeat's "Tale of Wandering Aengus" from my book "Myths of this World"
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electricomic-aengus

Demo electricomic based on the second adaptation of W.B. Yeat's "The Song of Wandering Aengus" from my book Myths of this World.

The two adaptations were very much conceived as a pair. The first one was the "obvious" approach for Yeats, with lush photo-shoppy visuals, and a strong emotional element. Version two took a more cerebral, abstract look at the poem, starting up by examining it's structure, and breaking up the page into a grid, with each verse getting two rows of four panels. I then subdivided the panels with literal illustrations of each word. So we had a Romantic and a Classical approach, respectively. It sounds very serious and worthy, but there's a lot of bad puns and silliness in the second version.

I've picked it for my first Electricomic because I don't think it was successful as a one-page strip. Very few people have "got it", and I'd like to try telling it differently, in a more interactive way.

The base version of the comic, uploaded with the first commit, is just a panel-by-panel slideshow. I want to use it as a base to explore some of the following ideas:

...and probably other questions that haven't occurred to me yet.