The Weaver Festival Phenomenon (2018) pg.15

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Title:	The Weaver Festival Phenomenon (2018) pg.15
Artist:	Ron Regé, Jr. (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	118
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Comments:	2
Added to Site:	5/12/2023
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Adapted from a Banana Yoshimoto short story ‘Moonlight Shadow,’ that you can find in the back of most copies of "Kitchen," The Weaver Festival Phenomenon maybe Ron Regé, Jr.'s most straightforward book but also his most lyrical and beautiful.

Ron told me that he actually had the idea to have Satsuki running on the bridge, with a, for lack of a better term, fisheye camera effect joining all the bottom row of panels first, while for the middle panels he only drew in the figures but after he drew the bottom realized he could do a similar but slightly different effect for the middle row by using different locations but using tangent lines to not mirror the camera effect but also use the same lines to depict speed. When it all comes together on the page what you get is not only visually interesting but conveys fast running in the middle panels and a slowing down to a stop at the bottom. So many extremely smart decisions!

This page has so many Regé staples the aforementioned tangent lines, the multiplying of body parts to show movement within the panel, drawn out action, written out text explaining the action that is being done and maybe most noticeably a scene in which a character wakes up. The act of waking up is very important in all of Ron's work from Skibber Bee-Bye all the way to his most recent Halcyon, but it's always deployed different ways and the repetition and variations of how they are used across his body of work is fascinating.

Truly singular cartoonist who has really created his own visual cartooning language which in such a reference heavy art form is no small feat.

Pencil and ink on bristol board.

14" x 17"

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 5/12/2023

The bottom 6 panels form a great sequence to have our eyes scan in a circular fashion rather than in the logical reading order. The style works because none of it is messy and all very neatly done in a closed loop manner.

Griffen E
Member Since 2022

1 - Posted on 5/12/2023

Marcus Wai wrote:

Excellent observation Marcus! Yes forgot to mention this is early in the story and it is previously stated that Satsuki's waking up and running routine is a thing that is done everyday as a way of coping with a personal loss, so the circular nature of the layout also helps show that this is something the character has done many times before. The next page is an interruption of this daily ritual.

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