Continuing our look through MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, a 1973 release that explained assorted filmmaking techniques and terminology by using visual examples culled from then-recent Marvel comics.
A Johnny Craig sequence from IRON MAN opens this chapter.
Panels by John Buscema and Jack Kirby
Some more John Buscema here.
A Barry Smith CONAN sequence is used to illustrate this point.
More John Buscema.
And more John Buscema panels.
A Jack Kirby sequence
Top tier here by Gene Colan, bottom one by Jack Kirby
Again here, the authors can’t find a Marvel sequence that showcases their point, so they’re forced to draw their own.
Some Steve Ditko on the right.
Two Jack Kirby panels on the upper right.
And some Barry Smith examples here.
And some more Gene Colan.
Back to that Johnny Craig sequence from the chapter head.
Gene Colan
John Buscema.
Panels by Paul Reinman
Jack Kirby and John Buscema
There’s still more of this filmbook to look at in the future!
The Tom Brevoort Experience 
The guy answering the telephone looks like Dr. Elefun from Astro Boy.
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Catching up on these today. I remember the book on store shelves back in my bookstore days, tho’ I never did get around to scoring a copy. There was a big movement in both comics fandom (going through something of a quasi-intellectual renaissance at the time) & some film experts to view comics as “films on paper,” & this book was maybe it’s fullest expression. It was a notion I flirted with but quickly saw the flaws in once I’d begun writing comics; the two media really don’t line up all that comfortably, & thinking in terms of movies on paper guts comics of a lot of very useful narrative techniques, esp. if one becomes a purist. However, reading these pages now, movies aside this is really a very good basic primer of storytelling tools & techniques for comics artists, esp. those who are just learning. Plenty of good ideas & the fundamentals of how to apply them, & comprehensive enough they can pick & choose what they want or need but not doctrinaire enough to shy them away from following their own muse, an exposition of a semi-secret language most are forces to pick up only semi-consciously, seeing techniques they like but not quite understanding how they’re supposed to work or to what end. I could see the value in a reprint…
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