30 Days of Winter: Day 21 - Not-Quite Comics *Master Post*

[kingrockwell]

Hello and welcome to the 21st day of scans_daily's 30 Days of Winter celebration! Today's topic is Not-Quite Comics!

Many of you've probably heard the definition before, "juxtaposed images in deliberate sequence", and that covers a lot! But what about the thing that almost, but don't quite follow all of those rules or fit in that definition? Woodcuts, picture books, tapestries, single-panel strips?

What about these Incredible pop-up books, written by Michi Fujimoto and illustrated by Jeff Albrecht Studios, starring the Hulk?

What about A Walk In The Park, where the Hulk helps kids deal with playground bullies?


What about The Incredible Hulk Storm, where Hulk takes on that great of foes, nature itself and wins?


Well, today is their day. So post your favorite not-quite comics, or just any you think we might like to see. After all, today is all about them!
And stay tuned tomorrow, when the topic will be Lesser-known Comics! As always, you can check our full schedule to make sure you don't miss a day.

Comments

[thokstar]

juxtaposed images in deliberate sequence

Now I'm wondering if Superdictionary counts as a deliberate sequence or not.

[icon_uk]

It certainly SHOULD do, since it was part of a comics based educational package that DC put together.

[thokstar]

The joke, of course, is that the panels are in a deliberate sequence. They're deliberately alphabetical.

[icon_uk]

Yeah, misread that, thought you were wondering if Superdictionary counted as a "Not-quite comic".

[deleonjh]

Don't forget advertisements. They have as much claim to comic-ness as single panel strips if you're just going by the "pictures+text telling a story" definition.

[meatwhichdreams]

Aw man, I know there's some brilliant ones out there but I am drawing a blank on specifics right now! I'll try to post some soon...ha, this is reminding me how Scott McCloud and others argue that tapestries and cave paintings and Mayan pictographs and so on are in fact comics. I'm not sure you can truly fix one or another label on them, but we only gain awesomeness by looking at them!

[psychopathicus_rex]

The only one I can think of offhand is 'Death Strikes at Midnight and Three', by Denny O'Neil and W.M Rogers. I mean, it's BASICALLY a comic, in that it was published as a comic and features Batman, but the format is very different from the usual - it's basically a lavishly illustrated short story. It's very effective.

[kirayoshi]

I'd go with the original "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman. Originally it was an illustrated text story(with achingly beautiful artwork by Charles Vess).

On that score, the Alex Ross/Paul Dini quartet: Superman: Peace on Earth, Batman: War on Crime, Wonder Woman: Spirit of Truth and Shazam: Power of Hope. Also illustrated text.

[ejne7]

A tangent, but I'd love any recommendations for comics-style works - i.e. ones featuring characters from comics continuities - rendered into unusual media (something other than novels, films, TV). Mainly because I had a dream that someone made an edition of Kingdom Come in the format of the Bayeux Tapestry. IDEK.