Post 5 (week 5)

 Unfortunately I had been absent this week and missed important class content, so i will do my best to write what i can based on the reading. Both artists persist in altering the panel fit style. Eisner works in doing this by creating large panel-less pages that have large images and panel-shapes created with architecture.Thompson worked with altering the shapes of the boxes and used the line surface definition to indicate emotion, such as extra scraggly lines indicating strong negative emotion. For me, Thompson's Use of line caught my eye, as he would delve into angrier emotion, the smoother line quality would take up a jagged characteristic, creating an angry tone. While i lack the ski trips his story/biography in blankets hit me close to home, I haven't been bullied like the main character but Ive been pushed to the fringe and honestly, misfits make the best friends. He goes so far as to cut chunks of the boxes, when Raine talks about missing Craig she physically separates from the box, indicating a massive disconnect. Thompson is familiar with the typical formula for the graphic narrative, but he finds small ways to uniquely break those traditional forms, similarly to how the artists in the baroque took the conventional norms and pushed them in completely different directions. Even with this, the subtle details are what stand out so much in my eyes. His main line quality is irregular, the main comic segmented boxes are unique in their appearance, they are rectangular in shape. Similar to the pattern of the story and everything in life, they are not perfect. They have a wiggle to them, they do not conform to the norms of everyday life, just like craig. If i may, i would say they serve as a nice tie in to craig himself. While he isn't a perfect character, he conforms to the norms enough to pass forward in life, but still maintains a unique element that makes him an individual.