eisner / thompson

Reading Eisner's works are quite beautiful, I enjoy the emotion and fluid movements put into each panel and how painterly some pages look. I also enjoyed the video put in class where he was talking about how he came into designing the spirit and coming up with compositions. Eisner really focuses on the mood of the story and his playful typology through chapters of the spirit really sets the mood for each story.

The Comic Book

This week we talked about the comic book, I really enjoyed reading early EC comics and Tin Tin. I also read lots of the crime comics due to my love for mystery. I enjoyed being able to read all these stories from a time before the comics code and being able to understand how the comics code came to be due to these different comics.

Understanding Comic Strips

I really enjoyed reading early comic strips, I think my favorite comic strips to read were the Peanuts strips by Charles Schulz. I really enjoy Charlie Brown as a character and all the little snippets of life advice you can get from him.

The Graphic Narrative

The arrival was quite an incredible read, I really enjoyed the art and how there was no language barrier. Upon reading i was quite confused as to what was happening in the story and could only pick up a few things as to where the story was going. As the book went on I was able to understand that this was a story about a man leaving his family in order to find a better for them in another land.
My favorite part of this read was how alien everything was, it really gave a sense of how immigration would feel to a person who has never  experienced it, dealing with alot of foreign objects in an unknown land.