1 The first three of those pages (578-80) are wordless, indeed textless but for the page numbers, hand-drawn but non-diegetic, in lower left-hand (on verso) and right-hand (recto) corners. Since Blankets is a comic – it calls itself “an illustrated novel” (cover) and a “graphic novel” (front matter, unnumbered 4) – and thus consists entirely of visuals, including conventional visual representation of verbal and other auditory events, ‘silence’ means that on those final five pages no sounds are explicitly depicted. Volume 3, Issue 2: William Blake and Visual CultureĬraig Thompson’s Blankets (Top Shelf Productions 2003) ends with five pages of ‘silence’ (578-82). Volume 3, Issue 3: Comics and Childhood.Volume 4, Issue 1: The Comics Work of Neil Gaiman.Volume 4, Issue 3: ImageSexT Proceedings.Volume 5, Issue 3: Convergences Proceedings.Volume 5, Issue 4: Alan Moore and Adaptation.Volume 6, Issue 2: ImageNext Proceedings.Volume 6, Issue 3: Shakespeare and Visual Rhetoric.Volume 7, Issue 1: Worlds of the Hernandez Brothers.Volume 8, Issue 1: Monsters in the Margins.Volume 9, Issue 2: Mixing Visual Media in Comics.Volume 10, Issue 3: Comics and Fine Art Forum.
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