Art by Matt Bors.
For going on six years I’ve been a freelance war correspondent. I wrote a comic book about the experience and conned a very talented artist named Matt Bors into drawing it. It’s called War is Boring, and it comes out next week from New American Library.
War correspondence — that makes sense, people tell me. By why comics? they ask.
Because words seem to want to connect like plumbing: one piece at a time in a perfect line, no gap between them. But images are like dreams. They’re wispy. They linger. And as they fade, they mix with the images that preceded them and follow. Comics combine words and images. You get the solid, logical effect of words plus the images’ gauzy wrapper. That lets you do all sorts of interesting things with story. You can say one thing with your text while implying another with the art. You can describe hints of untold back-stories with a few strokes of ink even as the narration leaves no doubt about your main point. “Look here,” the words declare. “Imagine this,” the art whispers.
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