Agenda-

  • Logistics and Announcements
  • Group Challenge: Distributed Case study
  • Presentations
  • Homework and Preview of next week

Logistics and Announcements

  • It’s not too late to volunteer for, or buy tickets to, next’s WWU Queer Comic Con
  • Consent forms: who needs?
  • Podcast: Make it then tell everybody, podcast by and about comics artists: http://makeitthentelleverybody.com/

Group Challenge: Distributed Case Study

 

  1. Discuss issue 4 of Bitch Planet
    1. Begin with likes/dislikes
  2. Then turn to the rhetorical situation (purpose, message, medium, genre, audience)
    1. narrow down to two elements of the Rhet Sit you think are most important to this comic or most interestingly inter-related
  3. Call out to Andrew when you’ve chosen your two elements to focus on

Prepare a presentation:

  1. As near as your group can figure out, what is the relationship between the two elements of the rhetorical situation your group chose?
  2. What do you notice by examining these elements of the comic together? (provide a panel as evidence for you analysis)
  3. What questions or further discussion on this comic do you have?
  • Genre + Medium
  • Audience + Message
  • Audience + Genre
  • Message + Purpose
  • Message + Medium
  • Purpose + Medium

Presenters

  • Courtney gave a demonstration of the digital comics program, ComicsLife3. She uses it to construct a comic out of pictures from the web. Filters and drop-in text bubbles make it easy to construct a comic.
  • Jacob gave a demonstration of his Swifty the Duck character. He has been doodling this character for years, and puts him in different costumes or characters (Mario, Morty, etc)
  • Matthew presented a collage exploring contrasting art styles in Bat Woman and Midnighter. The collage explores use of gutter space, which is largely omitted from BW, while Midnighter uses gutter space to overlap panels and provide diegetic cues (sound etc).
  • Julia demonstrated a close reading of panels from the Wicked + the Devine. She draws out the way foreshadowing is used to set up story arcs.
  • Margaret gave an elevator pitch for an art comic about a night-DJ named Daisy, who works late nights at the Viking Union. She discovers a magic button on her DJ equipment that brings movie characters to life. The piece will incorporate a timed-out playlist of the songs used in the comic.
  • Amberly presented a collage exploring the styles of two webcomics Extraordinary Comics and Hyperbole and a Half.
  • Epiphany gave an elevator pitch for an art comic about an inmate on death row. It will primarily be a silent comic. It will both explore the inmate and his restricted life, but also a scientist working on developing lethal injection research. It will also use research and footnotes throughout.
  • Devon gave a proposal for her academic comic, and also constructed a collage to develop the idea. The comic explores the field of astronomy and the search for earth-like planets around the cosmos. It would explain important concepts, including what can render planets habitable or not, how the search is conducted, and how we might plausibly be able to travel to these planets. It will not largely be narrative.

Homework

  • Listen to NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour episode “Free Comic Book Day and Rabbit Holes”
  • Hw: Study the fan culture surrounding a particular comic; gather evidence to use in a brief show-and-tell on Monday or Wednesday

Next week we discuss more about comics gathering their audiences and circulating around the world. On Monday, Jeff and Djengo from the Comics Place will be coming to talk with us about the local scene. Bring questions. Later in the week we will read Ales Kot’s 4-part comic series, Material.

 

Monday Presenters

  • Justin Heckt
  • Megan Russell
  • sandra park
  • Brendan Newell
  • Jacob Shelley EP
  • Margaret McKay collage contrasting
  • Marcus Thornton Demo