Category: Blog
I made a comic!
I really felt like Hergé in this picture as I was finishing up my final comic: hunched over the design table deep into the night, hand cramped (but not covered in ink as my left hand was, curse you g... Read More
On the Beauty of the Singular Process
I am choosing to write my final blog post on the singular process of making a comic because I find it appropriate to right now. I think that it truly does take a certain type of person with the skil... Read More
The Silence of Comics
One of the things that I really appreciate about comics/graphic novels is their ability to tell a story without words. I think it is a very powerful technique which a traditional story or novel cannot... Read More
Comics v Traditional Narratives
After this semester, I believe that comics are able to more accurately portray the author/artist’s vision for the story. However in doing so they can inhibit the reader’s imagination. Like... Read More
The collaborative contest
When thinking about which collaborative comic teams did well, I think of the teams that actually worked together and not against each other. What I mean is the teams that balanced their text and image... Read More
Form as Fantastic vs. Frustrating
Something really interesting that happened this semester was that I was taking this Graphic Narratives course at the same time as the Study of the Novel course, which examines the progression of the n... Read More
Full Circle
We began this course reading Scott McCloud’s handbook for interpreting comic books, aptly named Understanding Comics. When I first read it, I thought I understood most of the concepts he had wri... Read More
One Versus Many
There’s a lot to be said for both sides of the argument, “is a team better than one person?” First, let me discuss why working on a team is more successful than being on your own. Th... Read More