Reinventing Comics

creating an entire comic from scratch was much more of a challenge. After hours of planning and hours of carefully putting pencil to paper, I finally completed a full three page graphic narrative. However difficult this assignment may have been, the final product and feeling of accomplishment was well worth it. “For your final project, you must make a comic.” The first sentence of the guidelines for this project seemed simple enough, so that’s what I set out to do, make a comic. I got off to a rough

Essay #1 Human Senses in Comics (word balloons and symbols) In graphic novels the reader rely a lot on the panels to tell the story. Since it is a book the only sense we can use to help understand the book is sight. Even though in the book there are many times when the characters use the other senses. We can see the characters talk but we can’t hear or smell what they do. So two of many things the artists rely on symbols and word balloons. Word Balloons show us sound and symbols show us smell. Without

novels are being translated into comics, graphic novels, and even manga. The illustrated pages should be used to promote reading and writing. Everyone can recognize a novel as a book that tells a fictional story. Not many people know about comic books, graphic novels and manga. There is a difference between these picture books. Comic books were traditionally staple bound, but during the recent resurgence they were hardbound to better endure wear and tear. Comics center themselves around the misadventures

White. I selected this section of the story as it portrays Snow White’s continuously growing beauty and the Queen’s competitive envious response, which is a main insight into her identity as an innocent pawn in the Queen’s cruel games of life. In my comic strip, I have chosen of employ the use of my layout, different angles and annotations or speech. I focused my first page on the setting of the story and the birth and death of Snow White’s mother. This was told in 5 panels and 2 separate blocks of

Life Almost Straight, the title to the introductory unit, is somewhat contradicting. The decisions we make and the pathways we choose to take are more often than not just that, choices we make. However, to even remotely believe that we can live a life “almost straight” is naïve. It is human nature to follow the paths of those around us, or to sometimes take the road less travelled. So much goes into how our lives turn out, so many contributing factors result in us living whatever life we live. The

of media when adapting a comic book or novel. Sure, you can write a film based on a book or comic and have it be great, but if it 's a lengthy property, that means that a lot of stuff will get cut out. Do you know how fantastic it would be if Harry Potter was adapted for a television series? The books are huge, and although the movies are great, I think that if they adapted the books into a television format, it could have been even better. There are still a lot of comic books and novels that could

How to make a superhero comic strip and its subsequent parts Description: Writing an initial superhero comic strip and following it up with sequels is a tedious and time-consuming task. However, it is easy with the new online tools, which are available. The best way to make a superhero comic strip is to use pre-set templates available on the internet. You can use various templates provided by various sites. The easiest are the ones provided by Marvel Comics’ official website and other such websites

had a strong love for superheroes. This often prompted me to make my own comic books and create my own unique superheroes. Throughout class many students would watch me not only write these comic books but draw them and put them together. Many were fascinated but many were also degrading towards it. Despite some hostile feelings I continued to make them and continued to sell them around the school to those who wanted my comic books. One day while I was drawing the cover for the superhero I created

Frank Miller’s 300 the movie is probably the few adaptations of comic books to films that has managed to stay true to the original source and the success the movie 300 made globally is a testament of such, however in every successful film there is always the downsides of it especially if the original source is a comic book and therefore there is the expectations between the comic reader audience and the cinema audience. It is true that 300, though it has captured the concept of its graphic novel

fan of reading comics with my father and our favorite comic was Barney Google. My dad gave me the nickname “Sparky”, which was named after the famous horse “Spark Plug” featured in the comic. In 1950, The United Feature Syndicate of New York published my new comic strip which I wanted to name Lil Folks, but the company named it Peanuts. The only four characters that appeared in the comic were Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, and Snoopy. At the time when I was still making it, the comic had more characters