I think that I definitely prefer the subject matter of the Cosmicomics to that of Angela Carter but Carter just describes her settings and characters in much more vivid detail. I think that I could do much richer drawings from her writing - everything feels a little bleak in the Cosmicomics. However, I have only read about 100 pages of Carter’s Nights at the Circus and due to the complex vocab I am finding it quite difficult and slow to get through. I think I’ll try push through with Carter and if not I’ll order Calvino's 'Invisible Cities'.
Scenes / characters from the Cosmicomics -
The scenes that I have found so far that I would like to draw would be the one from 'distance from the moon' - the rough sea with a little boat and ladder up to the close vast milky scaly moon - This kinda reminds me of moomins and I think I could capture this really well.
Also the location from Meteorites where Wha’s chaotic side of the earth is described - everything messily stacked - but even though he describes it as chaos in our world it kinda works so I am not sure how this would work visually.. I could draw the egyptian monuments described as being like stacked dishes’/ all of the different objects of a landscape floating into place - this could be really cool if I took places and drew them how they might have looked then - bits missing, bits floating into existence - or I could draw the room filled with junk mentioned at the end - ‘the packed storehouse of objects we’d found’ - thing is this is literally all that is said so I’d have to invent it all
The only character that I found that is properly described that I would be interested in drawing is the girl covered in seaweed, limpets in the 'Distance from the Moon' story.
