Sunday, November 6, 2016

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.

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