Week05: Body talk: Will Eisner and Craig Thompson
This week I watched Craig Thompson's Blankets Part 1; the story is a graphic novel from the boy's first-person point of view, Craig. The graphic novel is characterized by the fact that the screen is very free to use panels. Especially, there is a part of Craig's situation that is developed into imagination. In Chapter 1, 42-43, the whole is used and the image of two pages is connected. It was much easier to read the character's feelings by slowly developing the situation than the comics. Because English is a second language for me, it takes more time to read the situation or context when I see a normal comic, and sometimes I do not understand it. But this book was better read than I thought, and I thought why, and what the professor told me in class told me the answer. In fact, when we read people’s emotions, we think facial expressions are the most important thing, but this graphic novel has a very detailed body movement. Various body movements made the speaker'