Literature of comics & the graphic narrative course 2020

This week I saw a very familiar comic book with characters I often saw as a child. Among them, the work I read was Carl Barks' "Uncle Scrooge - Message from Mysterious Island". When I was a child, I saw a comic book that was the beginning of the existence of Disney Channel or video. Unlike the comic strip, I saw last time, the overall story was long and there were many stories of a short story. And unlike the original comics, the printed comics contain a lot of advertisements. If you look closely at Comics, you can feel the traces of hand painting one by one, and you can see that you are full of humanity when you look at each panel. One of them is that you cannot paint the color neatly. It was interesting because it seemed to be able to feel the feeling of the old comics compared to the digital comics that are coming out these days. Because the usual comics are short episodes, there are many contents to be conveyed to each panel. The size of the...

This week I read the comic strip that kept readers waiting for a new comic. Winsor McCay, George Macmanus, etc. are famous for the writers of Comic strip. I was not familiar with newspapers when I was a child, so when I first saw a Comic strip on a computer image, I felt that this is very small, but when I saw a real-sized picture, I realized that it was a bad idea. The book "Sundays with Walt and Skeezix" by Frank King attracted my interest during the comic strip reading time. The name of the comics that were serialized in the book is "Gasoline Alley". The reason why I have attracted my interest in this comic is that the characters of the story of the work grow more and more over time. When I confirmed that the baby of the family members' daily stories grew up and became a child, I was envious of the subscribers who gradually felt it. Comic strips have a limit of one page because they are works written in newspapers, and there are many restrictions bec...

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...

This is my test post.