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Rick Trembles' Motion Picture Purgatory

by Rick Trembles
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Overview

From the pages of free weekly The Montreal Mirror comes the best of Rick Trembles' distinctive hybrid film-review/column/comic-strip Motion Picture Purgatory. A novel new form of film criticism, the medium of sequential art lends itself well to the dissection of motion pictures; frequently resembling storyboards, plotline trajectories are diagrammatically tracked via elaborate cross-sections and aerial views with an obsessive attention to detail. Trembles has developed a worldwide reputation over the years distributing his own comix and appearing in a variety of anthologies.

Synopsis

From the pages of free weekly The Montreal Mirror comes the best of Rick Trembles' distinctive hybrid film-review/column/comic-strip Motion Picture Purgatory. A novel new form of film criticism, the medium of sequential art lends itself well to the dissection of motion pictures; frequently resembling storyboards, plotline trajectories are diagrammatically tracked via elaborate cross-sections and aerial views with an obsessive attention to detail. Trembles has developed a worldwide reputation over the years distributing his own comix and appearing in a variety of anthologies.

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Book Details

Published
September 1, 2004
Publisher
FAB Press
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781903254301

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