Literature of comics & the graphic narrative course 2020

This week I read Scott McCloud’s “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art,” which I was actually using as a reference book in my major class. As I mentioned earlier, this book is about the information that I major in motion design and that I have enough information to be used as a reference book by the professor during my major class. I had a little time to accept information because of the transmission of so much information at the beginning, however, this book solved the problem by using different fonts to show people what was important, and I really liked this part. The author of this book did not explain it only in writing, but the person who explained it was drawn as a character and felt like explaining it in detail and easily in the book. Especially when I explained the icon, I had never questioned how the icon was created and how it was made. If you look at me from page 26, you will explain the difference between realistic character and icon symbols in...

This week, I got visual pleasure by reading Shaun Tan's “The Arrival”. Unlike comics, which are written or shown in conversation, these works proceed through sequential images of pictures. This kind of graphics is called wordless “Graphic Novel”. When we look at the title "The Arrival", we can guess that the story of this work has arrived somewhere away from somewhere. And in reality, this work proceeds through the frame of each episode arriving somewhere. This work shows the speaker who lives the life of immigrants in the imaginary world with beautiful illustrations. In the early days, scenes seemed to be almost realistic life, but as the screen progressed, it showed that it was a work with a lot of fictional imagination images through delicate description screen composition. The scenes show similar forms of scenes such as dramas, movies, and animations. On page 47, the speaker uses a technique that makes the image blurred as he gets his mind to the point o...

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