ENGL 3880 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Body Language, Heterosexuality, Making Comics
10 Apr 2018
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Bill watterson"s calvn and hobbes: representations of childhood. Perspectives of childhood play out in this text: boyhood speci cally and toys, subject positions - implied reader/s, psychological appeal of particular character - see: mahony"s article, sources of humour. Midterm (25%: 10 mc - worth 10 points, essay question - 15 points. De ne and discuss key features of a concept. Childhood - makes statement that is concrete. Use child construction as something interesting to adults. Tuesday, february 13, 2018: private person - didn"t give interviews. Earliest attempts to creating sense of characters had nothing to do with children: making comics for children about children was not life project - just hit on it - became popular. Emanata = non-verbal things such as snapping - communicates action or movement: caricature - what is it that gets exaggerated, panel by panel - breaks down - First panel: in words, establishes relationship: interdependent. Harmonious: outside - washing car, young boy - lower down.
