The art of comics

Understanding Comics – Scott McCloud

The art of comics?

The art of comics?

1. What’s in a name

“Comics are juxtaposed pictorial and other images in a deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.”

- Scott McCloud

1. What’s in a name

Sin City I – Frank Miller

1. What’s in a name

1. What’s in a name

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“Comics are juxtaposed pictorial and other images in a deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.”

1. What’s in a name

1. What’s in a name

1. What’s in a name

2. Realistic vs. iconic

2. Realistic vs. iconic

2. Realistic vs. iconic

2. Realistic vs. iconic

2. Realistic vs. iconic

2. Realistic vs. iconic

Maus – Art Spiegelman

3. Blood in the gutters...

3. Blood in the gutters...

3. Blood in the gutters...

Closure: the tendency to see an incomplete figure as more complete than it is.

3. Blood in the gutters...

3. Blood in the gutters...

3. Blood in the gutters...

3. Blood in the gutters...

Black Hole – Charles Burns

3. Blood in the gutters...

“closure as blood, gutters as veins.”

- Scott McCloud

4. Show and tell

7 word-image combination

1) word-specific: images illustrate words without adding new, substantial information.

4. Show and tellStitches – David Small

4. Show and tell

2) image-specific: words only add a “soundtrack” to telling images.

300 – Frank Miller

4. Show and tell

3) duo-specific: words and images convey the same message.

4. Show and tell

4) adding combination: words and/or images amplify or elaborate on each other.

4. Show and tell

“Prisoner on the planet of hell” – Art Spiegelman

4. Show and tell

5) parallel combination: words and images seem unconnected.

4. Show and tell

4. Show and tell

6) montage: words are used as parts of the image.

Habibi – Craig Thompson

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7) mutual dependent combination: the combination of words and images conveys a message that neither could have conveyed on itself.

4. Show and tell

4. Show and tell