Today’s must read: BODY WORLD’s Dash Shaw joins the Comics Comics blog and in his first outing examinesGroundwork of Evangelion: 1.0 , a sketchbook for an upcoming anime. He finds it a treasure trove of semiotic information:
They’re marked with little notes that I don’t understand. All of the Japanese I once knew is gone, and I don’t know filmmaking vocabulary anyway. Unlike comics, which have a widely-known “insider” language (“these bubbly shaped frames around the words mean the character is thinking- is that cool with everybody?” “yeah, okay”) this is a totally foreign “insider” language used by the people at the studio to communicate to each-other. They weren’t drawn to be published for a wide audience; but here they are, published, and I could go into Kinokuniya in NYC and buy a copy. Awesome.
Evangelion 1.0 has already been in Japanese theaters. I believe it was in select US theaters as well
Dash Shaw and Evangelion fit like a hand in a glove. Body World was full of similar symbolic techniques, like interspersing the narrative with a Venn Diagram.
Evangelion fans, check this out!!
Asuka or Rei? Which is your favorite Evangelion figure?
http://kogaiga.com/Asuka-or-Rei–Which-is-your-favorite-Evangelion-figure/fa7b067a-258e-102d-8e8d-0018f3e166dd/battle.html
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