If you had a week to put out a chapter of a comic would you be able to do it? Maybe you can, but the majority of the western comics (excluding webcomics) release the next part of their stories after a month or so. They usually have different writers and artists as well, so the story may not flow like… Read more →
When reading most of the graphic novels for class I do not spend much of my time ogling the actual drawings, but instead tend to wrap whole attention around the story and the growth of characters. I tended to look at the art as I would the diction of any other writer; if it was appealing and well done, I… Read more →
Internet based media- from art or poetry to web-comics and other developing forms- has definitely become a huge phenomenon in recent years. I wanted to open up a discussion about the importance of these kinds of publishing platforms because we’re going to be reading Emily Carroll’s “Through the Woods” soon. Carroll originally gained some recognition when her comic “His Face… Read more →
What is an image? What is/where is your imagination? What happens when we read a story? Most pages in the first half of “What It Is” presents you with one or more of these kinds of questions amid strange, dreamlike, and sometimes-disturbing imagery. The book doesn’t answer them for you, but that isn’t the point. You’re meant to think… Read more →
What is story telling? In Lynda Barry’s graphic novel What It Is, storytelling is chaos. It is imagination and creativity. It is images, and most evidently, it is memory. Barry’s book is split generally into two sections. The first contains much of her own stories and memories from childhood, interspersed with hundreds of images; the pages purposefully chaotic and all over… Read more →
This week in Graphic Novel, we finished up Watchmen with a few articles before we started to touch Lynda Barry’s, What It Is. At first glance, this book seemed very out of this world, very different. It felt like I peeking into someone’s head and observing how their imagination works. I also find it a bit strange that we have… Read more →
Like some of the other bloggers have said lately, I was extremely unsure of how I would feel about this class. I had never read a comic book in my life. I had never really looked at them and thought, “Hmm…I should check this out”. But through this class I have developed an interest with them and I will continue… Read more →
Going through Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli, I can honestly say I really like this book. The story continues within no boundaries that limits it to a framed section. The other aspect was the theme of Architecture. I am currently enrolled in a class of Modern Architecture taught by Professor Dreiss, I appreciate the architectural theme a little more. I… Read more →
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension— a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into the Twilight Zone” The distinguishable voice of Rod Sterling has sent shivers down my spine… Read more →
Asterios Polyp is all about style, but one of its most effectual techniques for me is its use of color. The colors chosen, as well as the shades and intensity chosen within the color, show a lot of thought put into them by the artist (and writer), David Mazzucchelli. The book uses blue, purple, yellow and red, plus the white… Read more →