For this paper I chose to do my final critique on Ilike Merey’s graphic novel, A + E 4Ever. As I was reading this graphic novel, and others like it one question always comes to mind. How does the way that authors of graphic novels represent their illustration help complement the text, and how does the author depict time? I will argue that illustrations help to enhance the story that is being told because using visuals along with text helps the reader not only read what's going on, which allows the reader to visually see the information that the author is trying to get across to the reader and I will discuss how time can be depicted throughout graphic novels. Adding images to a reading allows the readers to appreciate the story more because
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Having illustrations in graphic novels helps to complement the text because it is creating a connection between the words, and the text which is a key element in helping us convey our own thought, emotions, and stand points on the topic that is being addressed through a certain graphic novel. The combination of words and text in a graphic novel has helped in contributing to the growth of comics as a whole, which helps as a way to tell another part to the story, and add to the readers emotional attachment and engage in the story that is being told. In McCloud’s graphic novel Understanding Comics (pg. 153-155) he described the ways that we use pictures to complement the text in seven different categories (1) word specific, where illustrate complete text; (2) picture specific, where words add a “soundtrack” to a visual sequence; (3) duo specific, in which both strands convey the same message (4) additive, where one of the strands amplifies or elaborates on the other; (5) parallel, where words and images follow different courses and do not intersect; (6) montage, where words can be treated as integral segments of the image, and (7) interdependent, where words and images combine to create a message they could not convey alone. So, as McCloud has pointed out pictures in graphic novels has helped to complement the text in a number of ways, but not only can illustrations help to complement the text it can also help the author show different moments in time to relay different impressions to the
Having illustrations in graphic novels helps to complement the text because it is creating a connection between the words, and the text which is a key element in helping us convey our own thought, emotions, and stand points on the topic that is being addressed through a certain graphic novel. The combination of words and text in a graphic novel has helped in contributing to the growth of comics as a whole, which helps as a way to tell another part to the story, and add to the readers emotional attachment and engage in the story that is being told. In McCloud’s graphic novel Understanding Comics (pg. 153-155) he described the ways that we use pictures to complement the text in seven different categories (1) word specific, where illustrate complete text; (2) picture specific, where words add a “soundtrack” to a visual sequence; (3) duo specific, in which both strands convey the same message (4) additive, where one of the strands amplifies or elaborates on the other; (5) parallel, where words and images follow different courses and do not intersect; (6) montage, where words can be treated as integral segments of the image, and (7) interdependent, where words and images combine to create a message they could not convey alone. So, as McCloud has pointed out pictures in graphic novels has helped to complement the text in a number of ways, but not only can illustrations help to complement the text it can also help the author show different moments in time to relay different impressions to the