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Spotlight!
Every few months, I'll try to pick a different personal
project or activity to spotlight.
"Cyrano de Bergerac's Ballade" is my adaptation of Cyrano's famous 'duel
in rhyme' from Act One, Scene One of Edmond Rostand's classic heroic comedy.
Instead of doing a strict literal translation from Rostand's original French, however, I decided
to draw upon my knowledge and experience as a former collegiate foil fencer to emphasize the fencing aspects and
language of the scene.
Cyrano's Ballade takes the form of a pamphlet (saddle stapled) minicomic in which the final
page is longer than the others so that the 'touch' in Cyrano's final refrain is repeatedly read as part of preceding
stanzas/pages.
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