Wanli Wang
The main topic of the article is about the “graphic narrative’s relational ontology”. It mainly talks about the “installation art”, the Rut and relations in space and time. Also, it emphasizes the relationship between the reader and the space and time of the work. To specify, when the readers come across the comics, the changes of space and time of the narrative arranged by the author can be realized. Moreover, in terms of the topology of space and time, different narratives can interact with and comments for each other. For instance, when the character telling a story to someone else in one narrative, there occurs another narrative. And the comic can show the two narratives via showing the time, scenes, characters and other elements of the two stories in different panels in turn. In this way, the reader can get the information of both narratives, even though they are with different space and time.
In the previous reading, Comics, Linguistics, and Visual Language: The past and future of a field, it emphasizes the concept saying “Comics are not a genre, but a developing language” and introduces the …show more content…
Since space is “a kind of encounter”, how can I arrange effectively to leave a good and accurate “impression” on the readers when they read my comics? How can I make it explicit for the readers to know the order of the panels and the process of the story? In addition, the paragraph of “The virtual and the actual: a multiplicity of spaces” has opened my mind of the story that I would like to talk. The example of “view of the trunk through one of the masks”, whose “perspective is that of the boy who committed the stabbing” has given me a good hint that I can indicate another space without directly creating another panel for it, but through the same panel that I have used