Little Nemo

Litte Nemo left me a little conflicted whether i truly liked the stories or not. on one had the first few where really great most the stories are about troubles going on in there lives and them being in a dream state and at the end they wake up.. and that is what conflicts me mainly because after awhile you knew they would wake up in the end of there dreams and it kinda got board with that and the stories became more predictable and took some of the suspense for me. it wasn't that the stories where not fun and interesting they where. but i knew they would wake up and that it was all a dream... but i guess i just need to forget that its all a dream because the stories where so fun and interesting about life in a weird and very dream like state.

Krazy Kat

while reading Krazy Kat the first thing that comes to my mind is pre tom and jerry probably because that its about a cat and a mouse who are causing trouble and what i grew up with as a kid. besides that i found Krazy Kat really interesting to read the language they use very interesting and added a lot to the stories and i felt like the characters come to life because of it. the way the panels are layout and the action give you a lot with very little but works well and the comic comes to life. i really enjoyed krazy kat it was a very fun read.

Understanding Comics

Understanding Comics the invisible art by Scott McCloud was an all around great read with a lot of interesting looks into how comic are formed. i think one of the things that was really caught my attention was that it doesn't matter the medium a comic is made in whether it be traditional ink or all photographic to collages. its all about the juxtaposition and sequence of events. which was kinda eye opening to me because my range of comics has been very limited and it kinda opened my eyes to think of comics in a different way.

Max Ernst

First panel

There is a woman in the forefront doing this weird pose like a ritual and there is a person in the background who seems to be dead. there is also a weird chicken on a sphere.

Second panel

There is this person in a bird costume and a woman who looks to be ill on a bed it looks like she is seeing a spiritual healer or part of a cult. there is a recurring chicken in the watching.

Third panel

Now this is a women in a coffin that has been placed in a whole there are two chicken people looking at her and a women who is undressing its like something a cult would do to someone that had died or that they killed.

Forth panel

This scene is really weird there are two woman who look to be dyeing or are dead a chicken person is still in this panel but he is with another man who looks like a mystic  and they are in what seem to look like a church.

Fifth panel

This scene is totally different and actually shows someone who is truly dead with blood on the ground where she lays half way on her bed but this time the chicken person is walking into the door and looks shocked to see her dead there are also two small chicken looking at her dead body

Sixth panel

This scene is also different then the rest there is to woman dancing which a chicken person hiding and watching them without them noticing like he is stalking them

exploring the question of how wordless comics like The Arrival can tell complex stories without using words

The Arrival by Shaun Tan's was a wonderful wordless narrative though it is the first wordless narrative I have ever read/looked at I can see the complexity in which it is able to tell the story. The first thing I noticed while reading/looking at the images was the sense of emotion you get like starting out with the picture of him and his family and going through the emotions you already get the picture of what is to come then it opens up to a full bleed image of him and his wife with there hands holding on a suitcase looking at it in a sorrow you totally understand in these to pages someone if not all will be leaving. The book also uses a really great grid system which allows it to tell the story really well allowing for larger images to be placed with small squares to really and emphasis to important images in the story. It also uses cropping in these smaller squares help by just zooming in onto parts that really tell the story like when his daughter is holding his hand before he get on the train if it was just an image that was not cropped on there hand it wouldn't have looked as dramatic. Also the full spread images give the story this giant feeling. This narrative is like a great silent film it shows the parts that will hit you and and enough back information to let you fully understand the story.