Silent Funeral

A year later, in issue 11 of Casanova, Fraction cites Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 Band of Outsiders as the inspiration for a silent casino scene, in which all of the characters' dialog is erased, leaving only blank speech bubbles. The film was no doubt the inspiration for the silent funeral in issue 1. While the trick is interesting in the film, toying with diegetic sound and meta-narritive, it is just as striking, and perhaps more playful in this graphic medium. Just as Godard excelled at twisting cinema's arm and torturing convention, Fraction revels in exploring the limitations of the comic book.