Lecture 002

Cullen: young Blink: challenge women's duty

World: racism turns people into monsters TOSA: lab-mates are survive of TOSA (black-wall street)

Story:

• women's duty and women hero

• black man's inferiority and KKK

• Frankenstein style monsters

• police's complex

1:

• composition centered around two characters

• color centered around two characters

2:

• splash with panel-in-panel to depict environment

• overlapping panels are used

• people are all in one color (no main focus)

3:

• artists tends to use small visual clue as turning point at the end of the sight of one page

4:

• all in one color, black/white with tone

• composition stable

5:

• "long shot" to establish environment

• splash (middle shot) to establish environment

6~8:

• OUT OF PANEL: drawing of monster

• COMPOSITION suggest trainer / trainee

• many splash pages

• speech balloons speaking out of panel

8:

• COMPOSITION suggest relation of the grandma and the main character

9:

• un-bordered panel to show importance of panel

10:

• supporting the CLAIM of center panel by surroundings

01-44:

• TRIANGULAR panel shape indicate sharp, exaggerated movements

• COMPOSITION to suggest power dynamic (right corner)

01-45:

• use of color CONTRAST to draw attention to bird

• and use 3 shot to emphasis the BIRD (foreshadowing)

01-47:

• MEMORY (twisted border of "panel")

01-52: forest shot -> <- conflict long panel

01-58: power dynamic when killing with gun

How Panel Sizes Convey Time in Comics | Strip Panel Naked

Panel: size and position

• constantly changing size: building rhythm

• the surface area of the panel is time