Week 3 |Jan 29| Little Nemo and Krazy Kat

My comic was influenced by little Nemo, being it is a dream themed comic strip about a young boy going on dreamland adventures, i made mine about a girl dreaming of cloud surfing. Most of the comics ive read this week had surreal enviornments with little to ominous subject matter which i found interesting. It can be confusing for deep stories to connect wiht the reader with these general imagery.

Week 2 |Jan 22| Understanding Comics

I learned that making a wordless comic requires drawn images of the characters acting more than speaking, they are the pawns telling the story. In my comic/ silent storyboard, i'm expressing emotions such as pain and being abandoned for being different. You really need to visually story tell in order to get your point across by creating detailed images. Movement of limbs, creating gestural movement helps show the reader the emotions of the characters and their intent as well.

Week 1 |Jan 15th| Wordless Comics the arrival

In class assignment:

Translation 1

Woman tries to balance like the chicken does. She keeps a collection of smaller eggs near her.

Translation 2
An angel watches over a woman that seems to be dying or dead, could be representation of the person who cares for them also.

Translation 3
Girl lays in a coffin while a demon man stands over a nude woman. The nude woman could have some evil to her and she was wearing a fake angel outfit all along. There are angel wings sitting aside.

Translation 4
A chicken woman and a chicken man have a killed woman sitting there reading to be cooked or eaten. It is the opposite of what would happen to them. There are a lot of nude dead humans laying around for the chickens to eat.

Translation 5
a chicken man is upset because his human wife has been killed by chickens as he enters the room. There is blood everywhere and he is upset

Translation 6
a chicken is wrapped in a stick in the corner behind a cupboard, while a man and a woman are dancing.

Translation 7
a chicken man is talking to regular women
translation 8

a chicken man is running through the house and 2 girls are trying to hide from him but they are surrounded by other birds.

Blog post for this week:

There is a lot of imagery with objects and it connects the reader to the story. Sight and Images are the strongest sense we have and it can change the perception of the reader by a lot more than just words can in ways.

The benefit of wordless comics lets the reader interpret the story in their own way. A picture can mean a thousand different languages all meaning the same universal concept. An image is less easily described and straightforward as text explaining the plot, setting, characters and story. The large images of this wordless comic captures the theme, mood and setting very accurately and helps to explain the characters emotions more.

You can already tell this story is about immigration and coming to a new land just by the images of boats hurdled with people and sailing away from a dangerous past life. You get the overall theme from just the first few slides showing a series of images such as a suitcase, a family and personal belongings.

The artist shows the reader the main characters family and they are shown at once by the different faces. The introduction and identification of characters helps the reader understand what different characters are going through and experiencing in the story.

Character’s emotions and reactions come through more with illustration and convince the reader that the emotion is real and it is there, something words cannot do alone most of the time.

There are sometimes many various slides of illustrations being shown, almost like animation. This can indicate the speed of the action the character is doing, and also promote the reader to pay attention more to details occuring in the seen such as foreshadowing an event.

An example of these is when someone is stamping the main characters papers and he shows him a picture of him family, indicating that the person stamping them have some sympathy and let it go just for now.

If words were shown in this scene we would have put together something less imaginative as we wish to see the story. It would have been too straight forward and this is why images are powerful in storytelling even alone without words.

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