April 14 2017
Agenda
- Logistics and announcements
- Student presentations
- Group challenge: Putting the readings to work
- Talking about Comics
- Homework and Monday preview
Logistics and Announcements
- Remember you can pre-record 1-point presentation pieces
- Remember to buy tickts or sign up to volunteer for the WWU queer con ASAP!
Student Presentations:
- Alisa gave a demonstration of how she deals with anxiety in her drawing process. She uses brainstorms and freeform comics doodling to map out ideas and process the days’ events. In demonstrating her notebook, she focuses on doodling her character Puppie. Alisa demonstrates that drawing Puppie can help her draw out good feelings or bad feelings by drawing with attention to gesture, play, looseness.
- Kieran gave a demonstration on writing dialog for comics. Points to Halo 3: ODST as model for good exposition. Shows how each character’s first lines both establish the setting and also differentiate the characters. He draws out particularly the way one character introduces another to establish backstory.
- Courtney gave an elevator pitch for her comic Ellie & Hippo. It tells the story of Ellie, an imaginative young girl and her imaginary friend, who is a stuffed unicorn named Hippo. The comic shows the world from this imaginative child’s point of view. It’s drawn by Courtney in a watercolor style that emphasizes child-like outside the lines playfulness. The comic will examine how Ellie’s perception changes as she grows into an increasingly complex world.
- Hanae gave a proposal for a non-fiction comic about the 2011 earthquake and tseunami in Japan. She wants to focus on the techtonics and physics of the earthquate. She wants to connect this to the tsunami and the deaths it caused. Finally, she wants to connect it to the eventual meltdown at Fukushima. If possible, she wants to include stories about survivors or people who live with the aftermath in Fukushima.
- Elijah gave an elevator pitch for a comic called “The Scientist.” A 40-something deadbeat poses as a nuclear scientist who—alarmingly—is now responsible for saving the planet from a deadly asteroid. When he finds himself trapped in a time warp, he has to spend an eternity trying to become the hero everyone thinks he is.
- Sam was inspired by Sandra’s elementary school drawing, so he gave his own demo of a childhood story/drawing. Draws Bob, a happy creature with extreme proportion.
- Margaret gave a proposal for a comic “The Lunar Laureate“ It is about Harvey, the poet Laureate on the moon. It focuses on the pervasiveness of poetry. The comic will be written in verse, and demonstrate the different ways poetry infuses into culture and life
Group Challenge: Putting the Readings to work
- Look over the Project Booklet draft, esp L3.1 and L3.2
- Discuss your planned approach to these two projects
- Identify moments from Barry and/or McCloud you might find useful for these projects
Time: 15 minutes
Useful Passages:
- Lynda Barry
- Scott McCloud
- Chapters for making your own comics: Ch 4 on time, short comic on color 8 (need more!)
- p204 on the accessibility of comics visual communication for young audiences
- Comics as a place to identify with characters Ch2,
- Ch1 reading comics as opposed to just picture gazing for a middle school audience
- Ch 2, panels with layers of drawing, add ch 5, esp p 126
- Ch 7 on the six steps of the comic production process
- Ch3 on types of transitions, a feature to study
Homework and Monday Preview
- Listen to an episode of “Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men”
- AND/OR listen to this episode of NPR’s Code Switch: “Changing Colors in Comics”
- This begins our conversation about cultural rhetoric, including identity representation, audience, and the circulation of comics tropes.
- BRING YOUR SCORE CARDS ON MONDAY PLEASE!!!
Monday Presenters
- Alisa -collage
- Courtney demo
- Jacob demo
- Matthew collage
- Julia demo
- Margaret EP
- Amberly collage
- Epiphany- Proposal
- Devon – proposal
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