Show And Tell Mccloud Analysis

The Graphic Novel Club is a school club that I have unofficially led for the past two years. In this club we encourage the members to look deeper into any passion they have for comics, anime, superheroes, or cartoon design. We look at a broad range of art from comic strips to the full scale production of the latest Marvel movie and why components of the art have changed to accommodate the changing demographic.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick, 2007) tells the story of a mysterious young boy named Hugo, living in the walls of a Paris train station in 1931. It follows Hugo’s adventures, dreams, thoughts, and most of all, his quest to answer the many questions he has about his past. The Invention of Hugo Cabret “is a graphic novel that successfully alternates slabs of written texts with pages of black and white illustrations” (Lawn, 2012, Para 4). It is discovered firstly, how words and images work together to portray action and suspense. And secondly, how the words and images together arouse emotion from the reader and draw in the audience. These tools and techniques

Every comic has a unique style that makes the comic to stand out to readers. A comic’s style is made up different pieces that come together and give the comic the uniqueness that the readers fall in love with. Comic writers have to decide what type of framing style, transitions, emanata, layout and cartooning style they need to have in their comic to fit the story. Ella Cinders by Bill Conselman and Charlie Plumb has a very interesting narrative and cartooning style that fits well with the story the comic portrays. Throughout this paper I am going to explore the narrative and cartooning styles in Ella Cinders to understand why the styles were chosen and how they enhance the story.

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.

Charles Hatfield’s essay, An Art of Tensions, that comics are marked as being “easy” to read, when in fact they are a complex means of communication. “Comic readers must call upon different reading strategies, or interpretive schema, than they would use in their reading of conventional written text.” Chris Ware is often noted as a cartoonist who elevates comics because of the number of literary awards his work has received. Ware got his start in the 1991 in RAW Magazine, continuing his work in his series Acme Novelty Library. One of his most notable comics is Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth. Readers learn to appreciate his comics on a higher level because they cannot rush through his work. It’s complexity is a result of his use of text, diagrams, and pacing. Comic readers value Ware’s artistry because they have to work for understanding.

Every comic has a unique style that makes the comic stand out to readers. A comic’s style is made up by different pieces that come together and give the comic the uniqueness that readers fall in love with. Comic writers have to decide what type of framing style, transitions, emanata, layout and cartooning style they want to have in their comic to fit the story. Ella Cinders by Bill Conselman and Charlie Plumb has a very intriguing narrative and cartooning style that fits well with the comic’s story. Conselman and Plumb use simplistic drawings and storylines which allows the comic to be read in a short time.Throughout this paper I am going to explore the narrative and cartooning styles in Ella Cinders to understand why the styles were chosen

Maus avoids betraying the historical past that it depicts through its aesthetic usage of panels and gutters, representing the complex intertwining of the past and the present. Comics are comprised of panels, which are used to divide up narrative events, and gutters, the empty space between each panel. The illustrator can manipulate the thinness of the gutters, facilitating the reading process of each row of panels and allowing the gutter to function as a literal depiction of “time and space” within a comic (Chute 202). The “essence” of comics, according to Spiegelman, is that each box represents a “different moment of time” and the reader sees them “all at once,” resulting in his awareness of the “different times inhabiting the same space”

This type of medium of presenting a story allows the author to exhibit their creative ability by co-aligning the story along with the pictures designed by the illustrator. Although having two different writers may pose difficulties in regards for the plot and have potential for disagreements on certain topics, the outcome fosters the development of an innovative story telling technique that the reader may find pleasing. Most stories require words to relay the message to the reader. Action plots like WE3 allow pictures to be introduced in substitution for words to allow more freedom and suspense when interpreting the story. This book in the form of a graphic novel is pleasant to read because of all the images that give the reader the opportunity to analyze the pictures and make conclusions based upon how they want the story to

Different kinds of art is displayed everywhere, from our daily lives, all the way to our books. In Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, he found an interesting theory of how art and words evolved over time. Before, art and words easily went hand in hand, but as time progressed, art slowly grew apart from words and now, each component is evolving into its own category (McCloud 145-146). Even though some comics demonstrated this theory, words and art still created an extraordinary combination and made a huge impact in the literature world. Incognegro, written by Mat Johnson, is a historical comic based on the 1930’s time period to display the racial discrimination and harassment between African Americans and Whites.

Similarly, comics aren’t simply words and pictures put together without a specific mixture of the two. There is much chemistry that allows each comic strip to stand out from the next strip. McCloud shows many ways in which words and pictures can be used in comic, he says “The different ways in which words and pictures can combine in comics is virtually unlimited.” (741) He covers only a very short list of the different ways for combining words and pictures to create different styles in comics. A few examples given were word specific, picture specific, and duo specific combinations. Word specific combinations need the help of words because the illustration cannot stand on its own to tell the complete story. Picture specific combinations are illustrations that tell the complete action but have added words as an additional “soundtrack”, as McCloud calls it. The duo specific combinations show a strip of clear illustration and words that tell the same story with or without one another. This same idea is shown in the article “Great Presentations: Tips from Great Presenters”; Ken Krogue introduces the idea that a person should be able to know if they are comfortable with what they are about to speak about if they don’t use note cards. He rhetorically asks the readers, "Could I speak without notes? One way to measure how prepared and passionate you are is whether you need

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a famous, Pulitzer Prize winning tale about the journey of a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Despite the amount of similar storylines, Spiegelman’s creativity with the normal elements of comics has won him high praise. This analysis will focus on Spiegelman’s unique twist on icons, layouts, diegesis, abstraction, and encapsulation as displayed by Maus.

An overview of chapter five of the novel to the graphic novel shows that roughly eighty percent of content has been removed from the graphic novel to preserve its simplicity

A main literary element in Eisner’s Theory of Comics and Sequential Art is imagery. “‘Comics’ deal with two major communicating devices, words and images”

In my opinion, the comics can be considered as literature, I think comics is a form to express the story visually, it is different with text because they focus on the different area. If the text

The essay Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk describes the comic culture explain the cons and pros, while also helping non-readers understand the different types of comic books. Comic book readers feel like they are their own group, and are very particular about other groups do that not share their interest. Inside these groups are smaller, prejudice, groups that like certain types of comic books. Wolk explains that he himself thinks that all comic books should be called just that, without the different names. After stating this Wolk goes on to write about the different comic books, and pokes fun at them and their names.