Vinny's Literature of Comics and the Graphic Narrative

I found Scott McCloud's Understanding comics to be quite incitement and took extra time this week to reread it a couple of times. While I have been reading graphic novels and comics for quite some time and this further clarified some of the patters i had begun to notice in reading through comic series. One thing that i had wondered for quite some time was why on most comics, a semi-realistic/ shaded style was used instead of the full realistic style, and now, it makes full sense. Ive generated storyboards and beat sheets but hadn't tried to push the series of panels much past this step, realized pretty quick after playing with the idea after reading this and seeing just how much it takes to render a character scene to scene and it was surprisingly laborious. Similarly to the Traditional Animation Courses here at Ringling, simpler is safer when trying to re-draw a character from panel to panel, on top of the less rendered character appealing to a broader audience. I hadn't c...

panel 1 The person is mimicking the chicken possibly, striking a peculiar pose above the chicken with the egg. It could be a mockery, the woman is making fun of the chicken or even dancing with it to mock it. panel 2 looks like death staring over one of the dead, it is a strange, winged creature with a peculiar hairless chicken in the bottom left hand corner/ heads in the closet. the chickens have killed the woman. panel 3 the judgement of good versus evil after death. The woman appears over the dead with the symbols of light/ winged creature and dark horned creature appearing next to the naked woman, possible symbolizing the torn nature of good and evil within her. The woman in the grave could possible be her, or someone she had killed. most likely her panel 4 death- the woman on the ground appears to be dead and the strange creatures look down on her in... shock? there is another woman in the background being tormented and a statue with genetalia, is this a realm of tort...