The whole comic book process (editing, writing, pencilling, inking, colouring) is a collaborative medium and should be embraced and welcomed.
It's ballsy on the part of both men and hugely illuminating on the comic's creative process for the viewer.
Holdfast Network includes South London Hardcore, which I reviewed a couple of months ago, Left Field Shout (about films), Process (comics), Forward the Hamlet (Dulwich Hamlet footy team: niche) and a special daily programme from the very talented Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
It was a seemingly insurmountable task, but Izzard did it, raising £200,000 for comic relief in the process.
Enter Query, which taps into the ample comic potential of the process, rendering it, perhaps inevitably, as an old-fashioned board game.
The earlier sections of the book are written in a voice far closer to the voices in "Baby," "Friday" and "Eve" than the one that tells us: " 'The Awful Truth' gives one last glimpse of sexual desire in which the aroused human being, through a process of comic displacement and diminishment, is reduced to a clockwork mechanism, disappearing into the entrails of time.
To learn more about the process of making comics, read Make Comics Like the Pros by Fred Van Lente and Greg Pak.
The process of unsheathing comic spirits was not easy work.
In Vanity Bites Back at the Gilded Balloon Study, Helen Duff cleverly works the audience with a comic edge but in the process reveals most about herself.
A ragtag gang of thieves, trying to break through an apartment wall to rob a pawn shop, trigger a cascade of comic mishaps, but in the process, the pathos of their constrained, poverty-stricken lives comes to the surface.
