The details and descriptions instilled in comics that I am going to talk to you about, do not do justice to what fantastic things you can find in a comic. It could take days, maybe years, maybe even five minutes; but, I am going to boil mine down to three topics in three different graphic novels. Think you can keep up with that? I think you can keep up with that.
The three literary terms I am going to discuss upon are: The idea of framing when it comes to graphic novels, how coloring makes a difference when reading the graphic novel and last, but not least, how image-to-word play a vital part in both of those things mentioned above. The graphic novels in which we are going to talk about those three things are: Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol and …show more content…
When you open the book, the sight of the first page has a very calming sense of framing and even throughout the story you have that continuous sense of calm with the framing. Now, even though the framing is consistent and you rarely—if at all, get any bleeds; however, what you do have is the speech bubbles breaking out a frame quite a bit throughout this story, such as on page two when it starts the consistency throughout the rest of the novel. Now, what Brosgol does in the novel is interesting, because you rarely see consistency in graphic novels or comics for that matter. Sometimes they have bleeds and different shaped boxes pertaining to the topic of discussion in the story. I believe that Brosgol had this idea because it being a YA genre, maybe young adults do not like—parse—too much going on, on a page. What I would consider as going out of her consistency, would be something like on page thirteen through fifteen. What she does here is make an entire panel on the page, with the consistent framing and then she moves on to add boxes at the top (p. 13), which was something that was a neat idea. It still keeps the consistency, but you also have some variety, so young adults do not get tired of the same ol’ …show more content…
The consistency of bleeds in this story was amazing, I thought they were so well drawn and related to the emotional aspect of the novel as a whole. I believe when a novel can do that, it works and when things work readers are very happy about that—I know I am. Something I noticed about the framing as a whole is, throughout the novel it looks like it was drawn with either colored pencil or an actual pencil. It wasn’t like Anya’s Ghost, where the lines were perfectly instilled into the page. This one allowed the use of unpredictability and dysfunction, which was the plot. There were also examples like, page two that were an interesting sense of framing; which, continues on pages four, five, and six. The words are not a part of the panel itself, they apart of the page as a whole. The image-to-word capability—especially in this story, was very unique and experimental. On page ten, you have a sense of gutter space that wasn’t used as well. This happens quite a bit throughout the novel, and what is the message of it? Why do you think the author did this? Gutter space was so important in this story, because of the ways it was being used. In Anya’s Ghost, it wasn’t something that you really had to point out; but, this is something that is so often consistent that it is worth talking about. On pages thirty two and three, you have image-to-word/gutter/framing that all comes out in one to two pages. There are words on the page as if there were panels,
The three literary terms I am going to discuss upon are: The idea of framing when it comes to graphic novels, how coloring makes a difference when reading the graphic novel and last, but not least, how image-to-word play a vital part in both of those things mentioned above. The graphic novels in which we are going to talk about those three things are: Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol and …show more content…
When you open the book, the sight of the first page has a very calming sense of framing and even throughout the story you have that continuous sense of calm with the framing. Now, even though the framing is consistent and you rarely—if at all, get any bleeds; however, what you do have is the speech bubbles breaking out a frame quite a bit throughout this story, such as on page two when it starts the consistency throughout the rest of the novel. Now, what Brosgol does in the novel is interesting, because you rarely see consistency in graphic novels or comics for that matter. Sometimes they have bleeds and different shaped boxes pertaining to the topic of discussion in the story. I believe that Brosgol had this idea because it being a YA genre, maybe young adults do not like—parse—too much going on, on a page. What I would consider as going out of her consistency, would be something like on page thirteen through fifteen. What she does here is make an entire panel on the page, with the consistent framing and then she moves on to add boxes at the top (p. 13), which was something that was a neat idea. It still keeps the consistency, but you also have some variety, so young adults do not get tired of the same ol’ …show more content…
The consistency of bleeds in this story was amazing, I thought they were so well drawn and related to the emotional aspect of the novel as a whole. I believe when a novel can do that, it works and when things work readers are very happy about that—I know I am. Something I noticed about the framing as a whole is, throughout the novel it looks like it was drawn with either colored pencil or an actual pencil. It wasn’t like Anya’s Ghost, where the lines were perfectly instilled into the page. This one allowed the use of unpredictability and dysfunction, which was the plot. There were also examples like, page two that were an interesting sense of framing; which, continues on pages four, five, and six. The words are not a part of the panel itself, they apart of the page as a whole. The image-to-word capability—especially in this story, was very unique and experimental. On page ten, you have a sense of gutter space that wasn’t used as well. This happens quite a bit throughout the novel, and what is the message of it? Why do you think the author did this? Gutter space was so important in this story, because of the ways it was being used. In Anya’s Ghost, it wasn’t something that you really had to point out; but, this is something that is so often consistent that it is worth talking about. On pages thirty two and three, you have image-to-word/gutter/framing that all comes out in one to two pages. There are words on the page as if there were panels,