2 June 2017

Agenda-

  • Logistics etc
  • Presentations

 

Logistics

  • Score cards collected today
  • Also available for final points and card submission on Monday 10am-1pm in Andrew’s office HU 371
  • Make sure digital copies of all pieces are posted to canvas by 10am Monday
  • After grades are recorded, you will get an email about follow-up interviews about this course

Presentations:

  • Devon presented her finalized rhetorical analysis piece of Captain America Civil War. Her analysis focused on the way it worked with contemporary politics within the universe of Marvel, as well as the use of color for charactarization.
    • She then presented her finalized nonfiction comic about the science of finding habitable planets. Narrated by her dog Sadie, it lays out the current methods and knowledge about habitable worlds in our stelar neighborhood, and goes on to explore the considerable challenge of actually REACHING such planets.
  • Justin H presented the finalized version of his art comic, Empty Skies. The prototype consists of a drawn comic with empty word bubbles, and a matching script with numbers to correspond. The drawn comic evolves from closed panels and single story to instead explore the feeling and themes of the series. Emphasizes use of empty gutter space, full-page spreads contrasted with small layers of narrative detail.
  • Julia presented her finalized Why Comics Statement. She argues that the distribution–personalized, small and large scale–allows for a much more diverse representational landscape than other media. Citing Lumberjanes as a key example, now slated to be a movie, we can see that attending to niche audiences can still bring important success.
  • Brendan presented his collage of two contrasting comics styles in Southern Bastards and Monstress. In SB, colors are reduced to essentials: black/white/red for action scenes; in Monstress, Blues, golds, and whites.
  • Epiphanie presented two finalized prototypes. First, a nonfiction comic about prison and capitol punishment. It uses collage and drawing together to follow multiple perspectives through the process of executing an inmate on death row.
    • Her second was a comic about Exestentialism, which dpelnds together expressive intellectual text with drawn elements.
  • Courtney presented her finalized academic comic about Understanding Cover Letters. Courtney as an avatar talks through the most important aspects of planning and writing a cover letter, especially how to tailor it to an audience. It is constructed on black paper with white chalk.
  • Amberley presented a drawing demonstration of how she learned to draw a cat during the course of making her art comic project. She shared her process for drawing cats in a range of positions.
  • Elijah presented a few pieces, first his contrasting comics collage of the new Power Rangers (Boom Comics) comic and the web comic VG Cats.
    • He then did a rhetorical analysis and podcast remediation of Power Rangers. He submitted the podcast to a forum, where he got response back about having the podcast produced into a web video
    • He then presented on his why comics podcast about his unacknoweldged development as a comic fan, loving, for example, web comics and comic-inspired media
    • Finally, he presented a scholarly collage about color theory, drawing scenes from a range of comics to demonstrate the theory’s principles
    • Finally finally, he pitched an educational comic for kids about color theory that would use the perspective of a dog trying to learn to love comics without the ability to read color.
  • Keegan presented an academic collage focused on social activists, he presented a crossword puzzle of the names of prominent social activist leaders, mostly from the united states but not exclusively.
    • He also submitted his finalized rhetorical analysis of Cyanide and Happiness
    • He also submitted his finalized why comics statement about the overlaps he is seeing between his work in this class and his work in a podcasting class.
  • Daniel presented his finalized rhetorical analysis of Citizen Jack. It uses surrealism and fantasy to make us scream and laugh about the realities of contemporary political America. It avoids naming political sides (dem/rep), focusing instead on the emotions and everyday objects.
  • Tori and Matthew P presented the finalized Powerpoint version of Tori’s Rhetorical Analysis of the comic Fables. It is a fairy tale exploring adult themes, and it because exceptionally successful (spinoff videogames and child series, dozens of awards). The analysis folos the evolution of the series across the first 20 issues; at first, focusing on crime/noir, then twisting toward genre bending, then horror, heist stories, before if finally takes on a central story and moves away from one off episodic structure.
  • Matthew P then presented his scholarly collage related to different fields in STEM, drawing out the overlaps in how principles and working processes are applied.
    • He then presented the finalized prototoype for his academic comic about the process of applying for grad school in the sciences and building a research portfolio as an aspiring undergrad scientist.