VISD-3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Superhero Comics, Sequential Art, Thomas Rowlandson
27 Oct 2016
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Comparison questions: shown two images and being asked to answer something that pairs them in some way. Essay question at the very end, allowed to choose one of them to answer: suffered through courses with him in the past know his style of exam. Exam monday december 12th 830am 1130am. Superhero comics from the golden age that responded to the great. Depression: dialogues that have speech bubbles, pacing determined by the artists in a very chorological way. By pages by numbers: gives you the visuals, paper- typically cheap before, range of levels of quality- materiality and production value, digital changing the economics, formal experimentation. Implications of both of these definitions is that comic is periodic and serial. A narrative that unfolds over multiple issue. Not all comics are sequential: single panel, political commentary. Defining comic as sequential art: can be found in any period culture, necessary but not a sufficient aspect.
