Lit. of Comics & the Graphic Novel

To mean any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea.

The images; we use to represent concepts, ideas and philosophies

Icons of pratcial realm;  are icons of language, science and communication

Pictures: images desinged to actually reseemble their subject

Refers to the art form of using a train of imagesdeployed in sequence[1] to graphic storytelling or conveyinformation.

• 1. Moment to Moment: slight passage of time
• 2. Action to Action: single subject in a very distintive change - usually active or taking next step
• 3. Subject to Subject: staying with single idea, but moves to something else
• 4. Scene to Scene: crossing some time of space (eg. 10 yrs later)
• 5. Aspect to Aspect: By passes time, helps establish mood, different parts of a scene or area of focus (eg. kitchen -> pots -> plate-> food)
• 6. No Sequitur:  non objective art, no real connection to the next or have secondary relation to next scene

• Operating as several panels:
• action to a reaction as one scene broken up into multiple moments 

Motion lines

Motion techniques: Blur, motion lines, speed lines, repeated images

Eyes way in processing motion

Focused image with moving background

Where the moving figure or figures are imposed over

Lines used as stylized motion, as a design element

Usually a trasition line

Provoke essential response.

Use of image lines/and colour to procoke emotion/reaction.

Showing visual emotion

Eg. pictures or words- visual sensory: flies, outlines, stink lines, smoke 

Pictures illustrae but dont add to the text as much

Just illustrating the text

The illustration help the words out

When both works and pictures tell the same thing

Words amphlify or add to the image

The words follow a disjointed

Talking about something thats not related to what the illustration intends

Words and images are beng used as the same thing

Where words or images can only depict what the illustration or word intends

Depends on one another

The "Gloss"

How things are finished

Final look

Production value(s)

Putting the work together

Problem solving phase

Creating the production value

Edit phase (what you leave out, composition)

Compose

Put together phase

The style phase

Genera

Colour schemes

Development

"Why am I doing thing"

Medium that your using

Painting? Music? Comic? -> what it is

Creating the story: comic, novel, TV show

Finding the form of the story

Putting it all together

Why amd I doing this

Whats the main point

1. Comers

2. Money

3. Technology

More human style

More detailed

Eg. "Flash Gordon"

More abstract

Less detailed

Eg. Mikey Mouse, Felix the Cat

Panel to panel transitions are relationships described in Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics.He defines six transitions from one panel to the next:

1. Moment-to-moment, where relatively little change takes place between the two panels.

2. Action-to-action, where the actions of a single subject are shown.

3. Subject to subject, which transitions between different subjects in the same scene.

4. Scene-to-scene, which "transports us across significant distances of time and space."

5. Aspect-to-aspect, which "bypasses time for the most part and sets a wandering eye on different aspects of a place, idea, or mood."

6. Non-sequitur, "which offers no logical relationship between panels whatsoever."

A comics shows parts of thing that the observer then perceives as the whole.