comics are composed as paintings and movie shots executed in stark
textural charcoal, writes Paul Gravett in the foreward for her first north
American comic, Way Out Strips.
Keeping her words to a minimum, using terse dialogue and silences, constantly
shifting 'camera' angles and fierce, warped perspectives to add to the feeling
of disorientation.
Atmospheric, oblique, darkly humorous, her strips are like glimpses that hint of
bigger stories, about the bands and the buskers, the skinheads and the squats,
the London where she lives, and about the teen rebels, displaced, disaffected,
outsiders, on the road, on the run, in the mythic America we all know from films,
novels, paintings and songs.
An sample of Carol's
work can be found
HERE - a service
provided by ISM
Carol Swain 
