Reading 2

Blood in the Gutter

I really enjoyed this reading. I talked about the gutter- the dividing line between two panels in a comic, and how our mind is what fills those gaps.

There are moment-to-moment, action-to-action, subject-to-subject, scene-to-scene, aspect-to-aspect, and non-sequitur types of gutters. The idea of non-sequitur reminded me of the mini assignment we had to make a story about of the comic which had random images: cigarette, man on couch, dog bighting leg, etc.. That comic may have been non-sequitur.

The most often used of these are action-to-action, subject-to-subject and scene-to scene. I thought it was rather interesting that the proportion of usage of these types of gutter/transitions are almost identical in pretty much all comics. It is further interesting that in Japanese comics, the aspect-to-aspect type is actually used rather often while in western comics it is pretty much not used at all. In Western culture, the goal is to get to the destination, while in Eastern culture, its about experiencing being there. Its really interesting how different cultures could cause comics to be portrayed differently.

Module 2 Part 3

I found this assignment to be a bit more difficult than I had expected. I spent quite some time looking through the entire painting trying to fins any possible combination of images that could create a story. Finally I came up with this one: a tragedy about two enslaved men who attempt at an escape for freedom, and end up being sentenced to death.

Poetry & Comics

For this assignment I had a really hard time thinking of things that went together, so I kind of just wrote statements as they came to my mind. The background is an image I created last year in Intermediate Digital Imaging for our relative size project.

Module 2 Part 2

For this second part of module 2, the elements of fence, wall, water, dog and family are to be used to tell a story in comic format. In my story, I have a family of dogs relaxing by a small pond outside of their dog house. The mother falls asleep and one of the pups falls into the pond. She then goes to rescue the pup and all is well once again.

Module 2 Part 1- completed

I don't think I can make it any shorter than this without taking away from the story I am trying to portray...

Module 2 Part 1

I am trying to finish the first part of module 2, but I am having trouble using only 9-12 screen shots. I currently have 20. Here is the work in progress. I will continue to work to make it shorter.. Anyway, I am using frames from the movie 9 by the producer Tim Burton (who also made The Nightmare Before Christmas). I love the style of his work so I had to pick this film. Since I have not yet seen this movie, I am not exactly sure what is going on.. all I know is that some machines are "out to get them"... and the 9 stuffed dolls are somehow involved in the prevention of the machines destroying all.

I start my sequence with doll number 9 watching some kind of hologram/video thing which tells him that the machines have turned against us! He becomes concerned, runs off to notify his allies of the threat, and then a machine shows up. This machine grabs and kills 9's allies causing him to scream "NOOO!!!!" (as shown in frame 9). He manages to escape and is now all alone looking off into the vast emptiness of a world being destroyed by machines. That's my story anyway. I'm pretty sure the movie is nothing like what I just said... Again, I neeeed to see that movie!!

Comic 1