Component C/C - Container and Context

Response to lectures from the Miami Book Fair International's Destination Comics program

The panels I attended were “Child’s-Eye View: Memories and Memoirs of Youth” and then “They Shoot Black People, Don’t They?: A Cartoonist’s Look at Police Brutality in the U.S.”

     

     The first panel gave me confirmation to the stance of how every aspect of a comic effects how the narrative and feel of it comes across. During the panel Meags Fitzgerald mentioned how she drew with pencil for the chapters where it’s her as a child – in her book Long Red Hair – and then drew with a pen for the chapters in which she is an adult. She also mentioned how the book is duotone which calls back to how the book is about two senses of self.

     I really enjoyed the second penal and definitely learned a few things about the topic of police brutality and racism that I didn’t know of beforehand. Keith Knight mostly uses humor to deliver a message and start a conversation about these topics and does it very well might I say. For those that didn’t attend this panel I really recommend taking a look at Knight’s comics.

Telling Stories: Narrative Art - Sequential Art

Response to "What is Comics Poetry?"

     I’ll start off by saying that before reading this essay I thought of this the comic assignment as just making a comic that has something to do with the Prose/Poetry small work. But this part of the essay:

“Comics poetry should balance freight between image and words. These elements are only doing work if they’re changing each other. Duplication is deadweight.”

made me think about if my comic will add anything to my poem [and vice versa] or if I was headed in a direction where my comic would just be a “copy” of my poem.

     So I am a big fan of comics and even dabble in making comics myself. When it comes to poetry, I don’t really read much of them or take part in writing them but I can appreciate them. With those two things being said, it was interesting to see Rothman’s definition of both poetry and comics. Plus I guess I can toss in his definition of comics poetry too because before we got into this topic I’ve never heard of comics poetry. Also I appreciate how Rothman gave light to what comics, poetry, and comics poetry are and the different aspects of them while at the same time leaving everything open to more input.

Landscape: In-Depth

My depiction of Diomira, a city described by Marco Polo in the book Invisible Cities written by Italo Calvino. (Pg. 7)