Monday 8 December 2014
Sunday 7 December 2014
Understanding Comic Books & Graphic Novels
If the world of comics & graphic novels fascinates you,
then you probably have wondered before what is going on behind the scenes.
How do the writer and illustrator go about creating such a complicated and sophisticated piece of art, such as a comic book or a graphic novel?
How do they chose the colours, the sequencing of the panels, the shapes and sizes of the panels?
How does a comic book manage to convey a whole story with so few words?
How is the narrative constructed?
How do we read wordless panels?
What is the panel, the gutter, the bleed, and closure?
I am presenting you 4 fascinating and remarkable books about the world of comic books & graphic novels.
The history, the creation, the stylistic methods, strategies of the narrative, the way to decompose and analyse them, and also some of the finest published examples in the section of the sequential art.
Here they are:
then you probably have wondered before what is going on behind the scenes.
How do the writer and illustrator go about creating such a complicated and sophisticated piece of art, such as a comic book or a graphic novel?
How do they chose the colours, the sequencing of the panels, the shapes and sizes of the panels?
How does a comic book manage to convey a whole story with so few words?
How is the narrative constructed?
How do we read wordless panels?
What is the panel, the gutter, the bleed, and closure?
I am presenting you 4 fascinating and remarkable books about the world of comic books & graphic novels.
The history, the creation, the stylistic methods, strategies of the narrative, the way to decompose and analyse them, and also some of the finest published examples in the section of the sequential art.
Here they are:
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--Back cover of Reading Comics, by Douglas Wolk"Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In Reading Comics, critic Douglas Wolk shows us why this is and how it came to be. Wolk illuminates the most dazzling creators of modern comics-from Alan Moore to Alison Bechdel to Dave Sim to Chris Ware-and introduces a critical theory that explains where each fits into the pantheon of art. Reading Comics is accessible to the hardcore fan and the curious newcomer; it is the first book for people who want to know not just what comics are worth reading, but also the ways to think and talk and argue about them."
Ka-BOOM,
Lilian White
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