1 May 2017

Agenda-

  • Logistics and Announcements
  • Presentations
  • Distributed discussion: Material issues 1 and 2
  • Hw

Logistics and Annoucements

  • Workshop 3 on Friday

Presentations:

  • Brendan gave a proposal for a nonfiction comic about dissociative identity disorder. He wants to use the comics form to demonstrate the ways the disorder distorts experience of reality. He wants this to walk a line between a diagnostic tool, and a sensationalized story about “this amazing disorder.” Instead he wants to make it informative, approachable, and focused on the practicalities of treatment.
  • Devon presented her finalized art comic prototype, Robin Hoodie. After workshopping the script, she created a first page and concept art of the characters and setting.
  • Brie presented a collage exploring the styles of two contrasting comics, Sex Criminals and Transformers. Her collage draws attention to softness vs hardness in line.
  • Amberly gave a pitch for an autobiographical art comic called “Fat Cat,” a failed love affair between a cat owner and her beloved cat who (who is over it). The comic will largely be non-narrative snippets. She showed a collage of her idea in development.
  • Rock told the story of the Batman Nos 426-429, “A Death in the Family.” The story follows how the writers wanted to kill off an unpopular iteration of Batman’s sidekick, Robin. The authors opened a public call line to get fans’ opinions of whether Robin should live or die (fans voted die). Fans felt the death deepened the Batman lore, and it spawned the most iconic comics death scene. This Robin later was brought back to life as The Red Hood.
  • Matthew presented a collage he built using Prezi presenting two versions of the web-based Manga One Punch Man. The artist originially conceived and drew it in a very basic style, but it was re-drawn with higher detail.

Distributed Discussion: Material Nos 1 and 2

  1. Choose which two factors of the rhetorical situation you will focus on in your analysis
  2. Come up with a claim or thesis about the connection between your chosen rhetorical elements
  3. Find a panel (or set of panels) to back up your claim

Purpose + genre: the purpose is to show the diversity of america, which is aided by the genre of realistic fiction. the book is realistic bc it shows real people not whitewashed media representations. (evidence: play with realness/artificiality, but also diversity of characters, explicit references to in-out groups in america)

Medium + audience: Material uses a real-to-life panel arrangement (3×3, step wise progression). It offers audiences a way to relate to their own perception of daily life progression.

Genre + Medium: Material is an illustrated braided essay perpetuated by distinctly different color schemes, which distinguish each character.

Medium + purpose: Material uses separate color schemes for each plot, in a way that adheres to color theories that show characterization (orange for distress, yellow for attention and caution. Color theory model from U of Indiana.

Message + Medium: Material’s message highlights the daily struggle of unlikely protagonists using distinct color schemes and complex situations to produce complex, personal storylines that are easy to follow.

Genre + message: Using photo journalism (fictional comic journalism, uses the tropes of journalism but isn’t exactly nonfiction), Material is able to emphasize the message of critique toward media representation, police oppression, and other real-life corruptions.

Homework:

  • Finish Material vol 1