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I also came across this old cosmetic advertisement for soap or deodorant. I thought it was interesting how the company used a comic style/humor. Thoughts?

Came across this panel and I thought it was kind of funny. Would this be considered a one-panel gag?

for people choosing to make a 40 panel comic as their final project, I came across this comic and thought the representation of time is used well, and is a way to take up a lot of space if you are focused on only 1 scene per say.

I am wondering when blog posts will stop counting for grades?

In class the other day, we talked about how the adults in the Peanuts comics never speak real words. I was curious what symbols Charles Schulz uses in his speech bubbles in place of words and found this comic. Of course, it is Woodstock instead of adults in this example, but I found the lines to be funny and very creative! Especially how the lines begin to slant toward the end and which signifies Woodstock saying something ‘sad.’ I am curious what other people think about this choice.

After reading the comics for today’s class, I wanted to explore more one-panel gags. Growing up, I loved reading the comics in the Sunday paper but I do not remember many of them being single panel. Since I haven’t interacted with many one-panel gags, I found this funny one online. When I read this panel, I looked at the two people and the text before noticing the bears in the background. I think that is why I found it so funny, since I didn’t notice the bears at first. How do others read this panel?

I came across this panel from what I assume is a horror-genre Christmas comic. It’s fascinating how subtle facial details can completely shift the tone—from something sweet and heartwarming to something sinister and creepy—without needing to know the rest of the comic’s narrative. What do you guys make of these face details, or of this style?

Vis-à-vis something that someone said in class on thursday, I give you this:

This is an image that came up during a google search for “manga”. I know we are already finished with the discussion of manga, but I think this is an interesting example of emanata & sound effects that is commonly seen in manga but not really much in other forms of comics. Another thing that makes this a great example is how there is no word spoken, so I wonder how people think about this page: is this a wordless page or do you consider sound effects in this page as words?

This meme’s text is put into the speech bubbles from a Batman comic. Based on our discussion from Tuesday’s class, I wonder if this style of meme is more likely to be considered a comic than other meme formats. This meme made me question my own definition of a comic, and I am wondering what other people think.

In class, we talked about the possibility of a meme picture being comic. Lots of people disagree with the idea that it could be a comic given there’s only one picture and it’s hard to built a sequence. I noticed a fun phenomenon that some times meme pictures come together as one meme. I wonder how this would change people’s idea, considering the series of meme pictures together as a comic?

(The meme pictures are from Sherlock TV series)

I thought this was cute and in theme with the winter day today, but would you consider this a comic after today’s reading? I am leaning towards no since it is non-sequential, but part of me also wants to say yes as maybe it could be a fun single-panel comic.

i found this archie’s christmas comic cover and was instantly reminded of the teen titans cover page we saw earlier, which was also as detailed and colorful as this. the main stylistic difference that i noticed here was the difference in the saturation of the colors. here the colors seem very lively which again goes on to reflect the comic itself.

Reflecting on the semester and all the different comics we’ve seen or drawn ourselves, I thought this picture would be beneficial to share with the class as it serves as a reference for the many different ways you can portray speech or action in a comic!

as I start to brainstorm ideas for my final, I have found this very helpful to me. I struggled with the last assignment being creative with changing up my angles to use perspective to better tell my story. I had ideas to do things from various angles, but I struggled with it because I take a very simple drawing approach. This helped me realize that even the most simple drawings can be done from various different angles.

There’s The Tale of Princess Kaguya movie in Hamilton provided to Colgate Students during the break. I went to watch it, and was intrigued by the simple and cartoony style of the drawings. Also, since each frame seems to be hand-drawn, it’s similar to comic panels, and it keeps reminding me of some we read in class, like Don’t Leave Me Alone and Town of Evening Calm. I was wondering about the topic we mentioned in class that comic may be classify as movie, and now I think that movie could be classify as comics as well, since it has a series of pictures connecting together telling a story. What do you guys think?

With Christmas just around the corner, I thought I’d share this amusing Charlie Brown Christmas-themed comic. It’s interesting how the author can create such an engaging and enjoyable story using just four simple panels. I also found it interesting that they used “scribbles” to color in the character’s blonde hair.

I’ve noticed that in comics, rain is often depicted using thin, streaked line shading. Do you guys think this is the most effective way to represent rain, or do you think it overwhelms the scene/makes the panel feel too cluttered?

I came across some fan art for Nas– some comic book-style covers inspired by his NY State of Mind track, created by various unknown artist(s). I thought these were really cool. What are your thoughts on using comics to hook people or repurpose another medium, like music, to enhance the world-building an artist has created through their work? It’s cool to see music embodied like this in a tangible way, or as a way for fans to show support/love for an artist.

I saw this drawing posted by a manga artist on social media and found interesting that this is not directly for the main content of the original comic (which I’m reading), but a pretty and fun one to draw people’s attention (said “the new chapter is at XXX website and please take a look” on the side). For artistes who sell their comics for livings, I think it’s important for them to maintain popularity, so they do things like draw extra pictures for their characters and post online or hold autograph sessions. Also for profiting, some of them sell merch. What do you think about the commercial side culture of comics?

This is a page of a comic named “Maus”. It is a comic made from the experiences of a hollacaust survivor, so it is a very serious and touchy subject. Using a comic to depict this horrific story has caused a lot of backlash. What are people’s thoughts on using comics to tell a serious story?

While reading manga, i found it a little difficult to interpret certain emotions and characteristics. This article helped me interpret manga better and thus I just wanted to share this for whoever is new to it!

Continuing our conversation of superhero comics, I came across this! What do you all think about this?

I saw the movie Here last night in Oneida (the theater has reclining chairs by the way). I left the movie with mixed emotions. The end of the movie was very well done, though the other 65 minutes I could have done without. The idea was there, but the execution was not awesome. Some of the CGI editing was just painful to watch… I really liked how they captured the whole movie from the same angle of the room and they were able to create more depth with the angle than I thought. I also did not realize (until I googled the reviews halfway through the movie) that they used AI to generate younger faces on Tom Hanks and Robin Wright so that they didn’t need to cast multiple ages worth of characters. That was super interesting to me and I wonder if that will be the future of movies that rely heavily on flashbacks. I did not love how besides the one main family, there was not much more than a surface level plot to follow for the other generations that inhabited the house. I’d give it 2.5 stars. Will I ever watch it again? probably not. Curious to here what other people thought!

Keep noticing these type of comics which I think make light of some of the dramaticism that can be associated with the superhero genre, especially comics.

Attached is an interesting article about the layout of comics and how panel style and size can influence how a comic is understood and read by an audience. The article gives many examples of different paths that a grid could follow. Also, the article explains how you can match a comic’s form with its content. Hopefully this is helpful.

in case anyone is looking for grid inspo for our assignment due sunday I found this!

As someone who is not a very advanced drawer, I wanted to look at examples of superhero comics with a more simplistic drawing style. While I couldn’t find any true superhero stories, I came across this comic based on DC characters that is drawn in a more simple, cartoonish style. Has anyone else seen any simply drawn superhero comics? I am assuming they are hard to find since a more complex, detailed drawing style is a trademark of many superhero comics.