Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud wrote a analysis of a comic within a grander comic. He differentiates what makes comics different from other mediums of entertainment. he says in his in cartoon form "what timing does film, spacing does for comics".
his analysis of transitions almost bring me back to film and narrative, in how similar the transitions give a perceive idea like soviet montage. but its also interesting how the panel transitions of comics are similar to other works of authors Herge's Tintin, and any jack kirby superrhero comic have similar transitions but are radically different in the execution and stylistic use of the panels apparently their most common type of transitions were subject to subject and action to action.
he then looks over Tezuka's work which i found interesting,he uses a different variety of transitions, in almost equal amount. from subject to subject and action to action, to one that's almost unique to Japanese manga and thats the Aspect to Aspect transition that helps establish mood, and setting.which readers have to assemble in their own minds.
some concepts explained in the book are kind of difficult to were about for me because it talks about the methodology of comics in the way of how we the audience intergrate ourselves in the comic. in particular how we identify ourselves in a character to be a part of the setting and story.
I think Scott McCloud does a great job at analyzing the underlying factors of comics that not a lot of people really describe when talking about how comics function as it usually is more about panels and speech dialogues rather than the psychology of the subject.
his analysis of transitions almost bring me back to film and narrative, in how similar the transitions give a perceive idea like soviet montage. but its also interesting how the panel transitions of comics are similar to other works of authors Herge's Tintin, and any jack kirby superrhero comic have similar transitions but are radically different in the execution and stylistic use of the panels apparently their most common type of transitions were subject to subject and action to action.
he then looks over Tezuka's work which i found interesting,he uses a different variety of transitions, in almost equal amount. from subject to subject and action to action, to one that's almost unique to Japanese manga and thats the Aspect to Aspect transition that helps establish mood, and setting.which readers have to assemble in their own minds.
some concepts explained in the book are kind of difficult to were about for me because it talks about the methodology of comics in the way of how we the audience intergrate ourselves in the comic. in particular how we identify ourselves in a character to be a part of the setting and story.
I think Scott McCloud does a great job at analyzing the underlying factors of comics that not a lot of people really describe when talking about how comics function as it usually is more about panels and speech dialogues rather than the psychology of the subject.
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