It was a relief to finally read a textbook that wasn’t a
textbook. It made sense to make a comic explaining how comics worked. The whole
time I was reading this I was thinking of my high school science textbooks, how
they would have pages of text then a few small photos to illustrate what was in
the text, I never understood what the hell was being said. The images were few
and far between so a lot of it was left to my imagination, which isn’t good for
science class. Usually imagination is good for comics, this book actually tells
you its good, but for explaining the structure of them this more “black and
white” format worked best. Every panel explained what was being told with
simple sentences and images. It made it really clear and easy to read and
understand. It was a long comic but I actually got a lot out of it, every page
was something useful and the use of all the images made it more clear. I’m
really glad we had to read this because I had no understanding of comics, now I
have an understanding of different styles of illustration, how the panels are
laid out, how transitions are meant to be filled with your imagination, and how
sounds effects can be written. This book was really helpful, I need to keep
referencing this booth throughout the semester to help me with our other
readings.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
The Arrival
This was the first wordless novel I have ever read. At first
I wasn’t sure how to approach it but after flipping through the pages briefly I
found that it was much more interesting to read a novel with no true script. I
took my time reading each panel and creating my own story. The style of
illustration made it very enjoyable to look through and read, how some pages
were one large illustration while others had a dozen or so small ones. In
particular one of my favorite pages was when the man was traveling on the boat,
Shaun showed the transition of time by illustrating over a dozen clouds on a
single page. I even like how he cheated and made his own language. It remained
a wordless novel because they weren’t really words; they were more like clues
that helped you understand the story more. Even though the creatures were
unrecognizable and the city was like nothing I have ever seen, I still knew
what the story was about, or at least I thought I did since I made me own
interpretation of it. The man left his family and home country and immigrated
to the new world where he lived alone and found jobs so he could save money for
his family to eventually come to the new world. It’s a story about overcoming a
new obstacle and in the end his family comes to live with him in the new world
and the very last image is his daughter teaching a new immigrant the language. I
felt that I have more of an appreciation for comics after reading this story
because this was like a true art in a comic form, and I really enjoyed the fact
that I could write my own script to go with the images so I could use my
imagination more.
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