of Camus’ novel, A Happy Death, Bechdel pays great attention as an artist to the wrinkles in the author’s face and specifically describes the texture of his coat collar with focused, crosshatched lines (1 below), while in the real-life depiction of her father’s funeral, the faces and clothes of the mourners are left smooth and non-descriptive (27) (2 below). There is a similar attention to detail in the rendering of the shadow and texture in the image of a dictionary page (28) (3 below). The layout and font choice is specific and descriptive of each printed material, from the exacting scientific conventions of the dictionary definitions to the juxtaposition of institutionalized print and personal handwriting on the office memo (28) (4 below). 1.
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