Books by Jochen Gerner
Contre La Bande Dessinée
by Jochen Gerner
Basically, this is a joke study of comics, a satire of a very academic view of comics and graphic novels. I like the simplicity, the beautiful graphics, and the absurd systematic quality he brings to things, like a page in which he lists all sound effects available to a writer of comics. Three pages in fact, and they’re French sound effects, which are different to ours.
Interviews where books by Jochen Gerner were recommended
The Best Comic Books, recommended by Tom Gauld
The cartoonist and illustrator says the relationship between words and pictures is an interesting one. A bad picture book would say “this is an apple”, a good one “this is not a pipe”
