Quick note on homework

For Monday – Feb 1 – is to make the "page two" of the comic you were handed.

Plewds and Others

We'll be looking at this today – comics "eminata" taxonomized 9tongue in cheek) by Mart Walker:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1673017/quimps-plewds-and-grawlixes-the-secret-language-of-comic-strips

Homework for Monday

Just a reminder - at the start of class bring the one (or two) page comic based on our in-class exercise. Again, the exercise is to take the three images you linked together, and make a story of some kind out of those connections. It can be a sensical story or a non-sensical one – it's can have a straightforward "this happened, then this happened, then this happened" narrative structure, or it can have a more open-ended sense of structure. But you need to create panels that create the "narrative glue" that connects the three images you chose to group together, in a way where that connection is self-explanatory (meaning, you can't assume you're standing there to explain to the viewer what the connections are – it has to be evident in the comic itself).

I don't have any constraints on the ultimate number of panels per page, or the extent to which you are transforming the images as you draw them (like Payton mentioning he was going to add rocket packs to the horned toads). If you'd like more of a guideline, a 9-panel grid is a very often-used format for comic page layouts, so you could resort to that.

Here are a couple examples (and you can click on them to see them larger) –

A straightforward narrative sequence by Japanese cartoonist Osamu Tezuka, which almost works like a storyboard (it's meant to be read, like Japanese script, from left two right, reading down each column):





And here is a psychedelic narrative by American Underground cartoonist and poster artist Victor Moscoso:

Welcome

Welcome to SNC Tahoe's GRAPHIC NOVEL AND STORYBOARDING class blog.


Here are a couple things we will look at:

 



http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/10/menace.html

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/07/dog.html

https://vimeo.com/97259197

And the syllabus is here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cgu0b5epqhndh3n/16SpringDART480-1Lanier.doc?dl=0