Exam prep instructions
EXAM PREP BLOG INSTRUCTIONS
Each week I will post 5 terms that have been discussed in our course. You are responsible for writing responses for 2 of them (ie. 2 per week). Write your responses as if you were writing the answers for an exam. Post your responses in the comments section under the appropriate term. Please try to have your responses posted before your tutorial begins on Monday/Tuesday.
If you cannot access the comments section to post your response, you must email me and I will send you an invite to the blog.
Participating in this exercise will account for 30% of your final participation grade. I will be posting 5 terms/week over the next 6 weeks, so by posting an adequate response for 2 terms will earn you 5%/week.
If you have any questions, please email me at jhandreae@gmail.com
This exam prep exercise in no way guarantees that all or any of these terms will appear on the final exam. You are responsible for familiarizing yourself will all of the terms relevant to this course.
The holy trinity of graphic art means the same thing. The trinity means a mixture of words and pictures; both are equally as important. Comics in the generation of tvs and radios were seen as cartoons for children to read on the Sunday paper. People regarded comics with little worth. The progression from Comics to Comix or from Comix to Co-mix is where more serious issues can be illustrated as graphic novels. Memoir writing in the form of comics is gaining popularity. For example, Maus is a chance to retell a testimony from WWII during the Holocaust. Experience is made up of two time frames. The past where knowledge is collectively understood. The present where people are living through the moments and events in their lives. Trauma is when experience fails. Sequential art is very effective in representing experience through motion and time from past to present to future. Frames or panels is where time, according to the reader, passes in the space between these frames. This space is called the gutter.
ReplyDeleteCo-mix is the combination of literature with art. This can appear as graphic novels, which is intended for an adult audience as opposed to comic books that are for a younger audience. The use of co-mix is unique because it not only has narrative but it has the ability to add dialogue. The reader can follow along more easily because of the visual aid. On a typical page you will see panels filled with visuals and dialogue, separated by gutters with narrative. An example in our course was Maus; a graphic novel pertaining to holocaust literature. The use of co-mix here was particularly effective because it allowed the author to move back and forth neatly –which would have been difficult to accomplish if it were a regular novel. Lastly, the combination of art with literature was also put to good use by the images of mice looking the exact same, to draw a resemblance to the Jews being objectified by the Germans during the holocaust.
ReplyDeleteComics are a combination of images and text that often take place in a sequence of images, with the intended audience being mainly children. Comix and Co-mix sees a change in audience as the literature is more mature. In class we read Art Spiegelmans graphic novel Maus. Spiegelman uses images and text to tell the story of a WWII survivor. This is different from what many authors before have done in their retelling of war stories, as he has made the characters mice and uses vivid images to help tell the story. It makes the novel much more interesting and really captures the reader, which is often very difficult to do when retelling war stories. The images really gives the reader a good idea of what it was like living in Germany and Polland during the second world war. This is a great example of the old saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words” as the story is told well with few words any many pictures.
ReplyDeleteCo-Mix is the combination of text and images to create a story. Although comic books are often seen as a childish form of writing , a more mature version would be an example of the book Maus. Art Spiegelman uses a series of images and text that go in chronological order to tell a story about a surviver in WWII. By using images in a novel it becomes easier to manipulate the story. Images (most times) let stories become more understandable. When an author puts so much detail in a story it can become dense , and one loses track of all the information. Spiegelman wanted to create a visual impact on his readers, he wanted the readers to become fully immersed in his
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A combination of short texts and images is what makes up comics. Comics are used to make reading more fun and are usually directed towards children. Comix and co-mixes are small comic books where socially relevant issues about the world are discussed. They usually defer from mainstream comics because they have content that is usually forbidden because they may include sexuality, violence, and explicit drug use or discuss topics that are not intended for all audiences. In the comix Maus, by Art Spiegelman, graphics and texts are used to tell a story about a World War 2 survivor. The author uses mice to depict humans and gives them real character traits, which make it interesting both visually to see and to read.
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