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July 22nd, 2007 6:01 AM

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Dave Sim talks about Plastic Farm

Bulletin:

"So: PLASTIC FARM FERTILIZER/an interlude in three aprils

Well, that was really good. He sure knows his way around a comic-book page and he manages to convey that in his own drawings and to the artists (in this case Wendi Strang-Frost and Jake Warrenfeltz) he works with. It is seriously weird stuff but this particular chunk of story – which is definitely JAKA'S STORY-paced – helps to clarify the nature of the weirdness through indirect implication and to really address the adversarial relationship between the Brethren and the Farmland.

I think one of the really interesting things is the way so many guys are starting to clue in to the extent to which you can juxtapose words and pictures in the comics medium. We're all raised on television and movies where the two are kept pretty close together but in comics you can "say" one thing while "showing" something completely different because the eye can double back for clarification a lot more easily. There's no "rewind" button in a movie theatre. We're just starting to explore the boundaries of that. Rafe has picked up on the fact that the sky is, pretty much, the limit.

I think the website is http://www.plasticfarm.com and if it isn't it should be. If he's got an "everything so far" button and you've got the bucks to spare, I really think it's worth checking out. "

-Dave Sim on the forthcoming Plastic Farm Interlude
(the first 21 pages of which you can read for free on my ComicSpace page...)

You can read more from Dave here, as well as parts of the letter I included with the dummy book: http://davesim.blogspot.com/2007/07/dave-sims-blogandmail-311-july-19t
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