When i was reading this comic, i was very interested right off the bat because i really wanted to learn about good comics vs. bad comics.
What i thought was interesting was the fact of simplifying a form or like the example he gave a realistic portrait of someone is better for cartoons to make it more simple. The artist can strip down the image where they are not eliminating details but they are focusing on specific details. Which i always didn't know how simple you could go with that, but apparently a circle and two dots and a line could be enough for our eyes to read this person.
I thought it was cool how you could have friend draw irregular closed curves and every one of those can turn into a simple face by just adding an eye or eyes.
The thing that i was ineterested in was how thet when people interact, they have vivid details about the other person talking to them because they are anaylzing that person. But for when you are talking to someone and you are smiling, you can picture yourself less vividly. You know that you are smiling but you do not know what it exactly looks like. How would you know that you had a piece of spinach in your teeth? You wouldn't until you looked in the mirror while you went to the bathroom after eating that deep fried chicken. But the other person would notice it and in their mind would have a detailed version of it from staring at it every time you would open your mouth or smile.
Realistic vs. Cartoon: when they stated that it is easier to read the text when there is a simple form of cartoon rather than a realistic version, i noticed right away that they were right. the one page had a realistic person saying something and the next panel was the cartoon speaking, and i noticed how much easier it was to read the cartoon rather than the realistic one.
i enjoyed this reading, mainly because i finally got a good idea of what is good and what is bad in the comic books and also reasoning's behind why they put that icon there, or split an image.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Rooster Panel Activity taken place in class.
Max Ernst comic panels during class.
mine might sound crazy, but this is what i recieved by looking and examining the panels, but i let my mind go and not try and stop what i was thinking.
1. She's attempting to do a chicken dance so that her chicken produces more eggs for her to sell.
2. Either she turned into a big chicken, or she died from starving and bad health because she had no money to help her survive and her chickens are there to say goodbye. Or maybe there is just a chicken cult.
3. "The chickens" have a ritual for her and barriers her into the ground at their church.
4. Maybe the chickens are turning other women into chickens for their clan. The one woman is lying on a panel that has the sketlton and cross bones, HUMAN --> CHICKEN!
5. The chicken clan which i am going to name, "Those eggs are mine" clan probably kills royality?
6. They have chickens watching their next victims, even when they are dancing.
mine might sound crazy, but this is what i recieved by looking and examining the panels, but i let my mind go and not try and stop what i was thinking.
1. She's attempting to do a chicken dance so that her chicken produces more eggs for her to sell.
2. Either she turned into a big chicken, or she died from starving and bad health because she had no money to help her survive and her chickens are there to say goodbye. Or maybe there is just a chicken cult.
3. "The chickens" have a ritual for her and barriers her into the ground at their church.
4. Maybe the chickens are turning other women into chickens for their clan. The one woman is lying on a panel that has the sketlton and cross bones, HUMAN --> CHICKEN!
5. The chicken clan which i am going to name, "Those eggs are mine" clan probably kills royality?
6. They have chickens watching their next victims, even when they are dancing.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
The Arrival written and illustrated by Shaun Tan was an awesome speechless children's novel. When i first looked at the cover i did not know what to expect from this book, but when i started to read through the illustrations i noticed it was about the struggles of a man departing his family to make a better life for himself and his family as well.
My favorite thing about this novel was that it had no text. At first, i have to say, i was definitely confused if i was reading the right thing just because there was no text, but then i realized not every book has to have text. I think the choice of not having any text makes it more creative for the reader to explore their thoughts and ideas of what the author is trying to portray through the story. It allows the reader to grasp the story in their own way/out look. My experience was that i had to read it once one day and then the next day i would read it, and so on and so forth. I had to read it so many times to try and figure out one way that i wanted the story to be. After i would collect my ideas, thinking maybe this is a dream of his, just because of all the little monsters running around, i didn't know if he was making up the monsters to be his "imaginary friends" or what. But after reading this a couple times, i started to see that it was about how crazy of a world it could be for an immigrant coming or going to a new place to explore. ( i know how crazy of a world it could be for such an immigrant due to the fact that i have friends from Africa now, and how they did not know a lot about things like, what is a squirt gun?
I really just love how me being the reader, i can enjoy myself entering a new strange world that makes me participate into the main characters emotion of loneliness. And how could i forget, the detailed illustrations and emotion through the pictures just blew my mind away as an illustrator.
My favorite thing about this novel was that it had no text. At first, i have to say, i was definitely confused if i was reading the right thing just because there was no text, but then i realized not every book has to have text. I think the choice of not having any text makes it more creative for the reader to explore their thoughts and ideas of what the author is trying to portray through the story. It allows the reader to grasp the story in their own way/out look. My experience was that i had to read it once one day and then the next day i would read it, and so on and so forth. I had to read it so many times to try and figure out one way that i wanted the story to be. After i would collect my ideas, thinking maybe this is a dream of his, just because of all the little monsters running around, i didn't know if he was making up the monsters to be his "imaginary friends" or what. But after reading this a couple times, i started to see that it was about how crazy of a world it could be for an immigrant coming or going to a new place to explore. ( i know how crazy of a world it could be for such an immigrant due to the fact that i have friends from Africa now, and how they did not know a lot about things like, what is a squirt gun?
I really just love how me being the reader, i can enjoy myself entering a new strange world that makes me participate into the main characters emotion of loneliness. And how could i forget, the detailed illustrations and emotion through the pictures just blew my mind away as an illustrator.
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