Thursday, 14 January 2016

Comic analysis

Comic books tell a story through pictures rather than words, for example a book gives an establishing paragraph to set the scene. Meanwhile the pictures explain what’s going on. To explain clearly and simply what’s going on through pictures.


Comics usually tell a story with pictures rather than words


A frame within a comic strip is a box with relevant drawing or images to explain the story, usually instead of description


What is visual storytelling/imagery?

visual storytelling could be an action sequence with lots of fast shot that could not be represented as well through words


What is an ‘eye path’?

(The eye path may vary depending on the country of the comic/graphic novel or page For example in Japan they read from right to left and also up and down.)

Star wars comic

I would use the Star Wars layout. This layout is clear, bold, and easy to follow. The eye path is easy to follow. The box panels are bigger so you can put more detail into the images. I think that the inner monologue boxes take away from the focus of the images, but they work well with the eye path, for example, one box is at the top and the next one is sightly below and the next one is at the bottom where it's working it's way down.

There are minimal speech bubbles in this scene. Starkiller is a Sith apprentice of Darth Vader, and in this scene he kills a rancor while hunting down Maris Brood who uses the dark side to blend into her surroundings.


The Walking Dead comic has a clear eyepath, the boxes are big and bold. The page is spacious and easy to look at. I like the layout of this comic. The things I don't like are that while it's spacious it doesn't have a lot of content. The artwork is simplistic and shows the characters clearly, but the realism in the art style is lacking.









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