It’s mid semester break coming up and the mercury is dropping down to 13 degrees this Thursday. There’s nothing better than staying in on a rainy day reading, except I’ve done so many readings for uni, that I’m going to start looking at picture books (or as nerds call them, graphic novels)

I’m doing a presentation for Intro to Cinema studies on A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014, dir. Ana Lily Amirpour) which has been adapted into a comic book, and the illustrations are so skilful and entrancing.

Another book I’m planning on reading is Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (whom you might know from the Bechdel Test, if you don’t, learn this thing before you start writing movies please). The novel has been adapted into a Broadway musical. I’m very excited to read it after glowing recommendations by the guy at Hares and Hyenas.

This fits in well with the most interesting reading we did all semester which was week 2, Editing. Where we were given a look at the gaps between panels as edit cuts. It was a concise look at Story Boarding. I really enjoyed it. First I have to finish Carrie Brownstein’s autobiography though.