Noted comics genius man and book-writer Scott McCloud says that there are different ways that words and pictures can interact within a panel.
One of these combinations is known as "duo-specific" and it's where the words and pictures are basically giving you the same information.
Example: The ten smiling squids are floating around--all facing the same direction.
And, the way McCloud describes it, it seems like this is the worst kind of combination to have. McCloud states it can appear needlessly redundant or is more appropriate for "info-comics" that explain to someone to use the stairs when the building is on fire or that it can be used to convey an antiquated or children's book tone.
It's the one kind of combination that indicates, through its very presence, a kind of un-modernity. If it's telling a story at all, it's the kind of story that isn't intended for modern, mature readers.
Mmmm....that seems just unique enough to make it....THE MOST RADICAL, MODERN COMBINATION OF ALL!
From here on out, This blog will only practice radical literalism! Word and image will be constrained by one another to create panels so opaque, concrete, and literal that the reader will be forced to look at the work and see THIS IS WHAT THIS IS! THIS IS ITS NAME! THIS IS WHAT THIS IS! THIS IS ITS NAME! The most powerful, simple and direct means of communication lost to the tide of irony, sarcasm, double entendre, slang, idioms, all the smoke and masks and sleights we employ through the creeping ceaseless narrative that frames our own experience at the center of the entire universe. That everything is mediated by our experience of it and it is our duty--or compulsion-- to tint that experience with our emotional, ideological reaction. No more! See and name! See and name!
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