[Article] Is This A Comic? Closure and Synthesis (Part 1)

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Is This A Comic? Closure and Synthesis (Part 1)

Some comics references / resources

Online

www.fantagraphics.com

www.drawnandquarterly.com/

www.comixtalk.com

http://www.canicola.net/

interesting....website on "Potential Comics" based on the idea of Oulipo

http://www.tomhart.net/oubapo/

the same artist -- Tom Hart

http://hutchowen.wordpress.com/

漫畫工地

http://www.comixhomebase.com.hk/

知日部屋

http://www.cuhkacs.org/~benng/Bo-Blog/index.php

Newspaper / Media

New York Times / Funny pages

The New Yorker / Humour

The Visual Language of Graphic Novels 

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/magazine/20040711_GRAPHICNOVELS_FEATURE/index.html

Artist

Chris Ware

http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/artStudio.php?artist=a3dff7dd568fe0

David Shrigley

http://www.davidshrigley.com/

Simon Lia & Tom Gauld

http://www.cabanonpress.com/index.htm

Matt Maden

http://mattmadden.blogspot.com/

Paul Davis

http://www.copyrightdavis.com

Art Spiegelman

http://lambiek.net/artists/s/spiegelman.htm

Writer / Scholar

Paul Gravett

http://www.paulgravett.com/

Scott McCloud 

www.scottmccloud.com

Will Eisner

http://www.willeisner.com/

will keep on updating the list...

Weekly 4-panel Comics [23Feb]

The topic for the next weekly comics : Current Affairs & Issues 

Deadline : 9am, 23Feb2009

Class work [9Feb09]

Create a story and present it in different lengths : 20 panels, 6 panels and 2 panels.

Ref from Scott McCloud's Understand Comics

Upload to your own blog when finished.

Weekly 4-Panel Comics

Requirement for next week's weekly comics  (16Feb): 

Comics without words.

Class Work [2Feb09]

Exercise on 4 different transition methods under the concept of "closure" :

1. Action-to-Action

2. Scene-to-Scene

3. Aspect-to-Aspect

4. Non-sequitur

(6 panels each)

Please finish your work at home and upload to your own blog.

Presentation arrangement

16Feb : Celia / 藍籃　(Japanese Manga)

16Feb : Saki / Dolly (Hong Kong Comics -- Children's comics)

23Feb : Helen / Zeta (Political Comics )

23Feb : Alan / 誠 (Gender Issue in Comics)

2Mar : Fever / Eason (Comics of Tezuka Osamu)

2Mar : Tomoko / Joan ( Local Comic Artist)

9Mar : 勇 / Jones (Peanuts Comics)

9Mar : Tammy / Kaman (Super heros in Comics)

23Mar : Pattern / Ar Ka (Hong Kong Comics : Kung Fu Comics)

23Mar : Rachel / Sonija (Alternative Comics)

30Mar : Susan / Ashley (Comics and Anime Culture)