EN 3176 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Understanding Comics, Visual Works, Streaking

• School: York University
• Department: English
• Course: EN 3176
• Professor: Jordana Greenblatt

Document Summary

One of the most canonical books about comics: how to read, see, and understand the elements of a comic. Defines and categorizes the formal elements of comics as a medium: distinguishes elements that are not in other mediums, however, elements found commonly in literature and art are also found in comics. Will help you acquire the skills you need to engage critically with comics. As a result, a lot of ways of taking works seriously, it does not take the static comics into consideration. Medium: the means or channel via which a story, information, or something else to be communicated is expressed, ex; film, television, text, painting, sculpture,etc. Content: the message or information that is conveyed, what the work shows or is about - the ideas it expresses, elements such as colour, style, subject matter, etc. Historically, analysis that takes creative work seriously tends to explore text or image.