Sunday, November 2, 2008

Reading and Writing about Comics ala McCloud, Part 2

The comic that I chose to re-analyze can be found at the following link:

http://www.drewweing.com/pup/04pup.html

One aspect of this comic that wasn't addressed in the blog that I found it in is the length of the panels. Specifically, the length of the third panel in comparison to that of the fifth. The third panel is about three times longer than the fifth but there's not a whole lot more detail to the drawing comparatively. However, the time in which the cat spends thinking about what "Pup" is thinking is expressed in the length of the panel. The panel wouldn't seem abnormally long if the last panel weren't much smaller and pushed to the right (the comic starts aligned to the left). Prior to reading The Invisible Art, I never looked at the panels themselves as being able to have a significant impact on the comic and its meaning.

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