Post 11 (Week 11)
For this week, I'd sat down and read the series of strips knows as The Bus. I was both
pleased and confused by it at first, it touched upon a form of
existentialism that i was not prepared for. The linear loop of the
comics made them feel complete, albeit a strange repeat of the loop.
Using the Imagery of the bus from scene to scene worked to give a
continuity of subject matter, but using different techniques and short
cuts to create the strange array of loops and bounds. It reminds me of the earlier subject matter in the class where we had created continuity where there hadn't been with the chicken men, I felt the same sense of continuity and confusion from strip to strip. The strip about the big questions had me rethink the whole comic after viewing it, leading me to re-read the grouping altogether. What is our existence, do we occupy the same space as ourselves in other planes of existence? Do we feel deja vu because we've experienced an event in one of our extra lives? Do these extra lives occupy different positions in space? Are we a marble within an even bigger bag of marbles? Is there someone staring into the small glass marble that is our world and watching in silent contempt? Or is it the lack of sleep and stress driving these thoughts? It is a philosophical subject, and one well deserved with another over a cup of coffee.
1:
Eightball #1
Daniel clowies
NOIR Aspect, has a classic feeling and design but pulling a gritty, less than pretty visual style reminiscent of the noir. The characters are casted as dark, dull, and flawed. Main protagonist is a flawed man on a mission to seek out an odd movie seen in a porno theatre. The black and white style, grittiness of character, and sleazy/ dirtiness is the defining style of the piece.
2:
Wimbledon Green
Seth
Classic cartoon/ comic feeling, amalgamation of multiple classical cartoon art styles, creating an individuality of each character. The color tone remains sepia, creating a reminiscent feeling of the past, pertaining to the accounts of Wimbledon Green.
Set up in the sense of a docu-comic, where a majority of the material comes in the forms of interview skits. Each character in the story contains their own comic box, creating a sense of individuality of interpretation. Each person is going to bring their own interpretation of someone, creating a sense that each interpretation, like art style, is unique to that specific person.
Style: this comic has a noir style, with a lack of clarity fueling the story telling and desire to figure out what happened.
3.
The Years have Pants.
Eddie Camble
Very gestural style, cartoonish. It has crazy dream stuff, it is super real in its content with paradoxial existentialism. Hand written font, very personal.
Blend of styles, screen printing, pen and ink, and gestural charcoal.
Based in the 1970's- style of chracters' clothing, mannerisms, slang, etc.
It is a recount of his life with this other chracter, with this nihilistic vibe that perpetuates dannys character.
4.
The Fountain
Daren Aronofsky and Kent Williams
This comic has a painted style
Characters of most important are highly rendered, with everything else fading into an unfinished obscurity, putting all focus on characters.
Based in reality, but also medival
A tale of rebirth and reincarnation, the mayan motif is repeated throughout the story with the nebula recurring multiple times in the comics history. The storys style is very bleak and flat until mention of the bilboa or the nebula returns, pushing the style more realistic and painterly.
5.
Pride of Baghdad
Niko Henrichon
Very gory and brutal, it pertains to adult subject matter and viewers.
The colors fight the subject matter and help to even out the piece. It conveys a sense of hope, as the animals break free from their concrete prisons.
It gives the creatures personality and their physical traits are a representation of their personalities.
It is a depressed story with a further tragic end, you hope that they would end well but it is based on a true story, with a personification on the animals.
1:
Eightball #1
Daniel clowies
NOIR Aspect, has a classic feeling and design but pulling a gritty, less than pretty visual style reminiscent of the noir. The characters are casted as dark, dull, and flawed. Main protagonist is a flawed man on a mission to seek out an odd movie seen in a porno theatre. The black and white style, grittiness of character, and sleazy/ dirtiness is the defining style of the piece.
2:
Wimbledon Green
Seth
Classic cartoon/ comic feeling, amalgamation of multiple classical cartoon art styles, creating an individuality of each character. The color tone remains sepia, creating a reminiscent feeling of the past, pertaining to the accounts of Wimbledon Green.
Set up in the sense of a docu-comic, where a majority of the material comes in the forms of interview skits. Each character in the story contains their own comic box, creating a sense of individuality of interpretation. Each person is going to bring their own interpretation of someone, creating a sense that each interpretation, like art style, is unique to that specific person.
Style: this comic has a noir style, with a lack of clarity fueling the story telling and desire to figure out what happened.
3.
The Years have Pants.
Eddie Camble
Very gestural style, cartoonish. It has crazy dream stuff, it is super real in its content with paradoxial existentialism. Hand written font, very personal.
Blend of styles, screen printing, pen and ink, and gestural charcoal.
Based in the 1970's- style of chracters' clothing, mannerisms, slang, etc.
It is a recount of his life with this other chracter, with this nihilistic vibe that perpetuates dannys character.
4.
The Fountain
Daren Aronofsky and Kent Williams
This comic has a painted style
Characters of most important are highly rendered, with everything else fading into an unfinished obscurity, putting all focus on characters.
Based in reality, but also medival
A tale of rebirth and reincarnation, the mayan motif is repeated throughout the story with the nebula recurring multiple times in the comics history. The storys style is very bleak and flat until mention of the bilboa or the nebula returns, pushing the style more realistic and painterly.
5.
Pride of Baghdad
Niko Henrichon
Very gory and brutal, it pertains to adult subject matter and viewers.
The colors fight the subject matter and help to even out the piece. It conveys a sense of hope, as the animals break free from their concrete prisons.
It gives the creatures personality and their physical traits are a representation of their personalities.
It is a depressed story with a further tragic end, you hope that they would end well but it is based on a true story, with a personification on the animals.
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