size of a comic or a graphic novel
Posted: Oct 16th, '16, 13:16
A few weeks ago I got "seconds" by Bryan Lee O'Malley as a birthday present. The guy who gave it to me reads a lot of comics and graphic novels, while I've mostly been reading webcomics. He mentioned he didn't finish the book and brought up the fact that he's recently found it much more fun to deal with shorter genres. This is not surprising, we mostly tend to enjoy smaller chunks of information: a larger article scares us off, a longer video seems like an obligation.
But what do you think about the panel-mediums? They already give us more information on fewer pages though using both verbal and graphic devices. Still, do you take the size of the book into account while choosing the next thing to read? Do larger books discourage you? Will you refrain from starting a webcomic if you see it's been on for 4 years with an almost daily release of pages (tl;dr it's a hella long)?
Or is it on the contrary and you are more likely to pick up a book that's fat and juicy and you want to commit to it?
But what do you think about the panel-mediums? They already give us more information on fewer pages though using both verbal and graphic devices. Still, do you take the size of the book into account while choosing the next thing to read? Do larger books discourage you? Will you refrain from starting a webcomic if you see it's been on for 4 years with an almost daily release of pages (tl;dr it's a hella long)?
Or is it on the contrary and you are more likely to pick up a book that's fat and juicy and you want to commit to it?