Week 9 Outline
Week 9
Narrative images: Comics
Why is this simple medium so powerful? Reading comics is not as simple as we might think. In addition to the various conventions and reading protocols we need to master, there is a complicated interplay between reading and looking; the visual elements of the comic strip and the “linguistic ones”; the pictorial nature of the “linguistic” component; the co-presence of images organised on the page and the sequence of images in the narrative. Comic strips have their own aesthetic, they are not a hybrid form somewhere between literature and art. In this session we explore the complex set of visual issues that the medium sets in play.