Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Sleepwalk and Time

Is time fast or slow throughout Sleepwalk, by Adrian Tomine?

Sleepwalk, by Adrian Tomine, is decieving.
The book is broken up into smaller short-comic-stories that seem to make the read fast.
But, if you look further into the stories and the depiction of time throughout each story, time is slow.
There is a beginning, middle, end. There are flashbacks that bring us back in time farther then the present story at hand.
McCloud discusses how a rope can be used to explain the time use in a comic.
He says, every inch on a rope represents every second in time on a comic panel (96).
Each panel is a different part of time.

Does Sleepwalk use McClouds use of time in a reasonable manner?

Sleepwalk does this but the rope is shorter and and the time is more spread out with each panel and with each story.
It bring more time into a shorter story. It allows the reader to understand what is going on and to also have an imaginaiton of the time in between and what is happening during that time we do not see as a reader.

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