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Let’s be honest, we all loved a good comic book when we were younger, but now that we are older there are few things thought to be more childish than reading a picture book. This is exactly what Scott McCloud has set out to change with his graphic essay from Show and Tell. Being a cartoonist himself, he has set out to change our perspective on comic books from our default categorization in being for children, to being a possible contender in the adult reading scene. By showing the underlying complexity that goes into the formation of a comic McCloud is able to give a clear understanding that comic books are not as simple or easy to create as the general population believes. Multiple times within Show and Tell McCloud

Every aesthetic used creates a sort of oddness and curiosity that presents the viewers with an elements of surprise everywhere you turn.

The comic Depression Part 2 by Allie Brosh is meant to have sad tone to it. The Sorrow is represented within her writings but the even better representation of her comic are the pictures, specifically her color choices with in the pictures. This essay will show how Allie Brosh uses colors to portray her personal narrative, how the colors justify her text, and what effect colors have on the audience. As discussed in class a personal narrative is persevering through a tough time in one’s life, Allie Brosh’s personal narrative is suffering through depression.

With this alone time, Junior learns to cope with things and discovers a new passion: drawing cartoons. Junior admired how art was so freeing and how everyone could understand a picture, saying that words were too unpredictable and limited. Drawing made him happy with his life, giving him hope and a sense of importance. “I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation” (Alexie,

Comic books can portray one thing and mean another. The reader, while reading, doesn’t think about the shading or spacing as they read a comic book, but it could change the whole outcome because of the setting or characters mood. Scott McCloud showed many examples of different concepts based on image, language, and composition. All of these concepts seen in Kindred by Octavia E. Butler are transition, the connection between image and language, and lastly closure. The others that can catch a reader's eye are time frame, different ways emotion was expressed between the character Dana and other slaves towards the Weylin family, and the vocabulary used in the text showing the reality vertex.

“Superman and Me” by short and choppy sentences to imitate children’s reading from comic books.

Also a website would be easier to access in contrary to an exhibit which required us in the same place. Conjointly, creating a website improves our dexterity for future career aspirations including technology and website building. Considering our combined skill set constructing a website seemed to be the perfect idea, and an enjoyable task. Furthermore, we felt our website should have a newspaper feeling, so we both used black text and countless black and white pictures. Together we agreed that the white background associated with newspapers made our articles, pictures, and quotes stand out whereas a colorful background would have been a distraction from the focal points of the website. The two of us concurred blue was a good color choice for our quotes and titles because blue is associated with tranquility. Our choice was not indefinite as we were certain this was the right option because of the peace compromise involved with our

My eyes followed the paths of my pencil point carefully, scrutinizing every stroke, every mark. Once I was finished, I held the sketch in front of me, frowning. It was still Oswald, the traitorous but annoyingly innocent rabbit. I furiously scribbled him out, almost ripping the thick

3. The artist uses color to convey a more realistic depiction of the characters and their surroundings, by using

The importance of the colors was

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Riding The Pine: Tim Bowling’s personal reflection of professional hockey in “Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey Goodbye”

facilitate groups of diverse talents, I will ask students to form their own groups using the

that is constantly being used through out the book. The idea of art is prominent to the reader.

Secondly, the light and colors help to enhance the piece. Due to the oil painting,