SUID: Why do kids like comics? LEE: There are so many reasons. There’s the action, the color, the fantasy, the fairy-tale quality, the element of the unexpected. Comics give kids something they can’t get in other forms of media. They don’t get it in newspapers or movies or television SUID: But doesn’t television supply fantasy?…

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Many years ago James Morrow (now a celebrated sci fi novelist) and I had an idea for a book that would teach the basics of film grammar: shots, cuts, lighting, framing, sound, and so on. Our concept was to illustrate the techniques using comic-book panels. But we didn’t want to use just any comic book…

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