Alright, so to put it plainly this blog is for a comic writing course I am auditing. It can be assumed the topics of my posts shall be dealing primarily in comics so, that’s nice.
Any who, my first topic of discussion I think is to deal with the whole concept of what a comic is and it’s function. Comic creator and godhead of defining comics Scott McCloud explains that comics or “sequential art” as Eisner refers to it, are composed of “images juxtaposed in deliberate sequence in order to convey an idea and/or an aesthetic response”(Understanding Comics, McCloud). That is to say that comics consist of a series of images placed in a specific order in order to convey an idea, much like film does albeit at a much quicker pace and with many many more frames. Comics are something of an amalgamation of literature, films and modern art; containing elements of all to create an completely new and highly flexible medium. Several types of comics in the world to consider, from the conventional comic strip found in newspapers, single issue comic books; often times comic books are collected into large volumes which are hereafter known as graphic novels. Finally there are web comics, a burgeoning new way to display the medium in new and exciting ways. I will expand on each of these types of comics over the course of the blog I’m sure, but as for now I shall leave it at that.
Cheers.
