"But for now, it was easy to lay out and pour over the colorful pictures
and dream up my own stories -- of something that was still yet to come."
- from Comic Books
Summer Pierre's not specifically a comics writer or artist; she's not a comic book industry name but I don't think she intends to be, either. She's an artist, a writer, a musician, a Bay Area native, and a fellow blogger. It's quite by accident that I found her blog, An Accident of Hope, but it's a great name (like abbracadabbling) and I'm happy I did.
Industrial Vigilante:Shout!''s last (and first) blog featuring the quote by Grant Morrison captured his beliefs about the essence of superhero comics with words. But quotes just as meaningful can be found in photographs and drawings, too. In comics, they often are, whether from text and image or image alone. A story, or at least a single, meaningful moment of one, can be captured within the size of a small panel. And though it's not much, any of us who might look at it would certainly get the picture.
My first discovery on Summer's blog was her entry Comic Books. Her single image captures an anecdote of significant time, like a well-written short story, as well as conveys to her reader not just the joy of that moment but her feelings about comics and their role in the story. While she might have just written the story with text sans any illustration, making it a drawing frames and defines this moment in ways a paragraph alone could never do.
Words and image combined make a very powerful quote - Pierre calls it a 'one page story' - that tells of her passion with comics as much as it makes a statement about the power of comics storytelling. Take a look:
Pierre's blog is peppered with one page stories. Her Artist in the Office 'Zine is just one more example of so many that have resonated with me. Exploring An Accident of Hope was a fun and inspiring, and it's more than earned my bookmark.
I recommend a visit to An Accident of Hope for every abbracadabbler. Summer Pierre doesn't know the word for what it is you and I are doing, but she's doing it along with us -- and very well. We're all accidental abbracadabblers, by definition. See for yourself here. Also, Pierre's comics, 'zines, and illustration can be viewed at her Flickr page.
More germane to social networking than comics, I wanted to include a few examples of Summer Pierre's creativity with the blogging medium below. Being a new blogger myself, and someone who's in love with ideas and images period, I really enjoyed her Creative Blogging entries -- photographed attempts to blog using other forms of communication - other mediums - than just keyboard and computer screen.
Another excellent example of inspired blogging communication is the series I've excerpted below. It's A Message Pierre posted for her readers in 2007 for her blog's second anniversary. You can see the entire message at the link.
Thanks for the borrow, Summer. Like the X-Files' Fox Mulder would say, "The Truth is Out There."
Photographs by Summer Pierre
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