31 May 2017

Agenda-

  • Logistics etc
  • Presentations

Logistics

  • Score cards will be collected on Friday (if done)
  • Final score cards and presentations can be submitted in person:
    • Monday June 5, 10am – 1pm in Hum 371

Presentations

  • Meghan T presented on her finalized rhetorical analysis of the first issue of Bitch Planet. She focuses on the representation of women’s bodies, violence, and identity.
  • Justin H presented his comics collage, focusing on the use of page-turns in horror comics. Likening it to the jump scare, he shows how the coming reveal draws the audience in, while the sudden image of the page turn provides shock and surprise.
  • Jacob E pitched a nonfiction scholarly comic about climate change. He also showed off his collage of this topic, showing how the dramatic natural changes lend themselves to representation of both the effects and principles of climate change. The visual medium could make climate science more accessible.
  • Courtney presented her scholarly collage, focused on the Antelope Canyon.
    • She then presented her art comic protopype, Elli and Hippo. Courtney build a folding prototype using paper, colored pencils, and paint, and stencil
  • Hayley X
  • Celine reported on two bravery tests, sharing her work on social media and even getting some responses. She then gave a drawing demonstration of the cute punctuation characters she used in her educational punctuation comic for kids. This was by popular request as everyone found her characters in that comic super cute!
  • Sam presented his art comic prototype of the Tao of Wu vol 1. His prototype consists of a cover image and a panel-by-panel script and visual description. He even submitted the script and image on the Wu Tang Clan’s official forum for community judgement and critique.
    • He then presented his collage contrasting the comics Grass Kings and Curse Words. He shows stylistic differences in the representations of violence and protagonist faces–emphasizing tone and attitude of the two pieces.
  • Katie described two bravery tests she did by showing a piece from her notebook to Michael Deforge at an artist event. She has also shown her very personal comics (about topics like mental health) to the class and other peers at Western.
    • She then showed her academic collage focused on the basic setup of an audio recording studio.
    • She then presented her pitch for an informative comic about the basics of professional recording and the job of an audio engineer. It will go into the technicalities of mic placement
    • She then presented a pitch for an art comic focused on the color white. It moves abstractly through topics like the recent deaths of friends, summertime, and other vaguely linked topics.
  • Amberly presented a pitch for an academic comic about knitting. It would offer some of the basics of learning to knit, but then also link this to the contemporary culture of knitting, both IRL and online. She then showed her scholarly collage which demonstrates the aesthetic of her comic. The collage shows beautiful yarn porn, as well as closeups of the tools and patterns.
  • Marcus G presented his comics collage, focusing on how faces are presented in nine different manga series. They run the range from photorealistic to sketchy to cartoonish and symbolic.
  • Marcus T presented his two finalized comics prototypes. First, his art comic The Which’s Son. His prototypes shows the cover image, basic sketches of the first issue, and his character sketches. Storyboarding and scripting has been essential in this development process
    • He then showed his nonfiction, Rene Decartes: Defender of Knowledge. He showed the cover image, and character sketches (Decartes’s poodle ears), and he posted the script itself.
  • Keegan presented his comics collage contrasting the dramatic Darth Vader comic with the cartoony and humorous Cyanide and Happiness
  • Megan  R presented her rhetorical analysis of Scooby Doo Apocalypse. Her analysis focuses on the repsesentation of physical bodies for the women comics, how they are rendered as strong and potentially dangerous and powerful. She shows how these representations counter the cartoon’s original objectification or diminution of the female characters
    • As a bravery test, she posted her rhetorical analysis on the DC comics forums.
  • Margaret presented her scholarly collage of cover images from albums she could use in her conceptual comic about a DJ who brings characters to life through her sets. The collage shows CD images with recognizable characters that would escape into the DJ studio.