{"id":11565,"date":"2010-11-02T15:50:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T22:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2010-11-02T15:50:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T22:50:05","slug":"hereville-reviewed-on-%e2%80%9cattempts%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11565","title":{"rendered":"Hereville reviewed on \u201cAttempts\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a fan of Stephen Frug’s blog “Attempts,” so I was delighted that he wrote an in-depth review of Hereville <\/em><\/a>(and relieved that he liked it!). Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n

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In both his page layouts and lettering, the largest influence on Deutsch’s work appears to be Dave Sim’s Cerebus<\/a>. I checked, and he admits as much<\/a> in his post on the completion of Cerebus, but honestly I think I would have seen it anyway: the lettering and page-layout in Hereville<\/span> is simply and unmistakably very Simmesque. But since Sim is a quite extraordinary cartoonist, one of the best to work in the medium (if also possibly the craziest and most misogynistic), this is by no means a bad thing: indeed, a fair amount of Hereville<\/span>‘s stylishness and formal inventiveness can be traced to a thoughtful absorption of Sim’s lessons. (Plus, y’know, it’s shorter, and feminist rather than misogynistic.) Deutsch learned from Sim, but the work is his own, and is very well done.<\/p>\n

Another influence, I think, is manga: he uses a lot of manga-esque motion lines and the like to convey action. — And actually, I’m guessing here — or perhaps only showing my own limited cultural frame — but I suspect that another influence was Scott McCloud: Deutsch’s use of motion lines, of what McCloud would call aspect-to-aspect transitions, and the like, strike me as ones that betray the influence not only of the sort of comics McCloud talks about but McCloud’s own specific analysis as well. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Stephen is right about the Dave Sim influence on my cartooning — I think I might now be the third most Sim-influenced cartoonist in print, after Troy Little<\/a> and Alex Robinson<\/a>. (I’m not counting Martin Wagner<\/a> since he seems to have retired from comics, at least temporarily.) He’s also right about Scott McCloud’s influence on my work. Although I’ve read and liked some manga, I think the manga influence mainly comes through McCloud’s work (as Stephen suggests). <\/p>\n

The other major influence on my cartooning (that I’m conscious of, anyhow) is Will Eisner’s work, especially his graphic novels in the 80s and 90s. <\/p>\n

There’s much more, so go read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a fan of Stephen Frug’s blog “Attempts,” so I was delighted that he wrote an in-depth review of Hereville (and relieved that he liked it!). Here’s a sample: In both his page layouts and lettering, the largest influence on Deutsch’s work appears to be Dave Sim’s Cerebus. I checked, and he admits as much […] Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hereville","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}