Lorna Alkana is an artist/writer who layers lines, colors, and language to build visual prose and poetry.
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3 Replies to “Comic Interpretation of “In the Waiting Room” by Elizabeth Bishop [draft1]”
Wonderful and powerful
Wow!!! Damn cool!!!
The artistic consistency makes it flow really well and I like the panel logic on the falling-out-of-the-chair page!
And I like the scribbles in the first and last panel used to frame the whole thing!
(Also I had Fugazi’s “Waiting Room” in my head as I read it, for obvious reasons)
I wrote a paper a few years ago comparing Fugazi’s sung with Bishop’s poem. I argued that Fugazi’s song hails elements of the poem. For example, both texts invoke a sense of collective voice. In Bishop’s poem, the speaker joins the others of waiting room as she spirals into introspection, “I-we-were falling, falling”; and the layered vocals in Fugazi’s song create a feeling of unity, “Everybody moving, everybody moving, moving, moving, moving.” Not to mention each text’s use of repetition.
Wonderful and powerful
Wow!!! Damn cool!!!
The artistic consistency makes it flow really well and I like the panel logic on the falling-out-of-the-chair page!
And I like the scribbles in the first and last panel used to frame the whole thing!
(Also I had Fugazi’s “Waiting Room” in my head as I read it, for obvious reasons)
I wrote a paper a few years ago comparing Fugazi’s sung with Bishop’s poem. I argued that Fugazi’s song hails elements of the poem. For example, both texts invoke a sense of collective voice. In Bishop’s poem, the speaker joins the others of waiting room as she spirals into introspection, “I-we-were falling, falling”; and the layered vocals in Fugazi’s song create a feeling of unity, “Everybody moving, everybody moving, moving, moving, moving.” Not to mention each text’s use of repetition.
Thanks for your feedback, Alex!