Essay On Graphic Narratives

In the world of comic books, graphic novels and manga, I have acquired my love for these types of reading for entertainment, but learning from the course of Reading Graphic Narratives, I learned to not only value the text or only the drawings when reading these types of texts, but to instead value both text and drawings to compile the meaning of the whole story. Another meaningful detail I learned in this course was, video games and graphic novels both share the elements of text and visual art. Even though video games are a type of media that give you audio, text and images, there will always be more to what meets the eye or ears, when playing a video game. Third, meaningful detail I learned in this course was, when a drawing style is more …show more content…
In addition, I learned that when an image bleeds through a page, it means that the drawing on the page has a lot of importance to the story and it is not just a big picture on the page. When registering for this course, I didn’t have to think twice in being in this course because I really love reading graphic narratives but the only thing that had me skeptical was the video games because I have stopped a long time ago for playing video games because I never had the time for it. Now, having taken this course I reconsidered because I never realized how deep and meaningful games are, that somehow the game I played which was, Life is Strange gave me such an emotional attachment to the game. If I find a game that seems really interesting, I will try to take a time in my busy life to sit down and enjoy the …show more content…
My least favorite was unit three because of 5 centimeters per second. At the time of reading and watching the anime, I didn’t understand anything because of the type of romantic genre, since I don’t like romantic genres but now after the discussion I comprehend these types of texts, but still I don’t like romantic manga. My thoughts on reading comics and video games was that, comics are a fantastic read and I love them a lot but video games is something I don’t play with a lot and can’t say they don’t interest me. My opinion has changed only on video games because now that I saw different styles of video games, made me want to start searching for different video games to play. The only thing I would subtract from the course was 5 centimeters per second, apart from me not like much of romance in manga but I guess you can add more chapters to read for this manga will make it better. The grade I think my participation merits is a B, because I read all the texts, came to class prepared but I didn’t share my ideas as much in the