Possible revisions

A rough weekend was not the best catalyst for thoughtful revisions on my comic. That being said, I do think a few things could use some definite tweaking.

I want to go through and add a little more development about the link between my arm coloring and future interest in tattoos. It seemed like people wanted a bit more closure there and I think at this point, it's left a little too open-ended. Perhaps I'll use my final panel for some key important details instead of the blocky THE END which was, admittedly, a cop out.

Other than that, I was thinking of shortening the gap between the left and right panels on each page. Personally, I just think they're a little too far apart. Certainly not enough to form an immediate disconnect but, I want to make the message clear to any reader. I don't want something to happen like our discussion of Daniel's comic.

I'm hoping my group members will have more to say on this in class!

-Jeff

Interesting Article

I found a very interesting essay online about Music in relation to Comics. A topic we haven't discussed much about in class.

http://mail.comixtalk.com/node/7350

Coming from a music background, I find this very enlightening. It was a subject I was thinking about tackling myself sometime but was unsure how to approach it.

Comic assignment 2

Well I'm posting this having already finished my comic. However, looking back at my process, I really enjoyed working on slightly larger project such as this. Writing for comics is harder than it looks and especially when it's loosely connected narrative.

I'm looking forward to making more of these, I just hope my schedule allows me more than one night to work on the next one :(

p.s. you can read my comic by following the links below

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Hatfield: Preliminary thoughts

An interesting thought came to me while reading Hatfield's piece. Specifically the Chris Ware portion on page 38. He discusses the radical style Ware uses to combine image and text. Although he admits near the end of the page that "few comics test the limits of the form so rigorously", can we adequately compare superhero comics of the 40's and 50's and newspaper comic strips to a work such as Ware's "I Guess"? Or do comics fall into the same cliche as other art forms where there is content which is considered "artsy" and content which is considered "for the masses"?

I think it's an important distinction if we want to continue analyzing all forms of comics or just the ones "that make you think".

-Jeff