Friday, September 29, 2006
Week #6 Reader Response
**Note: Week #6 response is due by Wednesday, October 4th even though class is cancelled**
Question #1:
Sanders, in his article, Of Storytellers and Stories in Gaiman and Vess's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (p. 38), states:
...We do not like to think that we live in a tangle of love and fear, that we may try to climb past our limits through art, and that the escape may itself become a trap. Comics may be an especially apt medium for such a disconcerting subject because it naturally involves the audience in the process of creating meaningful 'stories'...
Agree or disagree? Why?
Question #2:
Gaiman, in an interview, indicated that he breaks the rules of familiar comic book storytelling. What are the rules and how does Gaiman break them? Use examples from your reading of the stories from The Sandman.
Class will meet next on October 11th (happy birthday, Nate) and remember to read chapters 6 & 8 from Eisner, as well as the reserve reading (Jeff Smith's graphic novel, Bone: Out from Boneville, which will be available at the Circulation Reserve Desk this coming Monday afternoon, 10/2).
See you all on the 11th.
Question #1:
Sanders, in his article, Of Storytellers and Stories in Gaiman and Vess's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (p. 38), states:
...We do not like to think that we live in a tangle of love and fear, that we may try to climb past our limits through art, and that the escape may itself become a trap. Comics may be an especially apt medium for such a disconcerting subject because it naturally involves the audience in the process of creating meaningful 'stories'...
Agree or disagree? Why?
Question #2:
Gaiman, in an interview, indicated that he breaks the rules of familiar comic book storytelling. What are the rules and how does Gaiman break them? Use examples from your reading of the stories from The Sandman.
Class will meet next on October 11th (happy birthday, Nate) and remember to read chapters 6 & 8 from Eisner, as well as the reserve reading (Jeff Smith's graphic novel, Bone: Out from Boneville, which will be available at the Circulation Reserve Desk this coming Monday afternoon, 10/2).
See you all on the 11th.
// posted by Kate @ 1:53 PM 
