Saturday, October 14, 2006
Week #8 Reader Response
This week's readings discuss the writing process and the use of lines in comics to convey emotion and the inner self.
First...
Eisner states, "Comics is a medium confined to still images, bereft of sound and motion, and writing must accomodate these restrictions". How does good writing do this in a comic book or graphic novel? Use an example from our readings.
Secondly...
In McCloud's chapter on lines, he poses the question: "How can a single image represent the senses and emotions and how does this idea apply to comics?" After you read the chapter, what is your reponse to this question?
Remember to read all of Persepolis, available at the Circulation/Reserve Desk in Milne, for Wednesday's class.
First...
Eisner states, "Comics is a medium confined to still images, bereft of sound and motion, and writing must accomodate these restrictions". How does good writing do this in a comic book or graphic novel? Use an example from our readings.
Secondly...
In McCloud's chapter on lines, he poses the question: "How can a single image represent the senses and emotions and how does this idea apply to comics?" After you read the chapter, what is your reponse to this question?
Remember to read all of Persepolis, available at the Circulation/Reserve Desk in Milne, for Wednesday's class.
// posted by Kate @ 4:29 PM 
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Good illustrations aren't enough to fully convey a story to readers. Good writing helps by supplying extra information or helping immerse the reader into the imagined story. In Persepolis the author's writing helps us believe that the story is actually being narrated by a child experiencing life in Iran, instead of a autobiography being retold by an adult.
I think a single image can easily sum up senses and emotion, similarly to how a well trained actor might express several emotions with just one facial expression. Also the image may resound with prior memories or experiences the author excpects the reader to have experienced, as outlines in the reader - teller contract
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I think a single image can easily sum up senses and emotion, similarly to how a well trained actor might express several emotions with just one facial expression. Also the image may resound with prior memories or experiences the author excpects the reader to have experienced, as outlines in the reader - teller contract
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