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Part 3: Structures and Stories RT: Part 3

Research Task: Extreme Style

Research the following comic artists who are highly unconventional and extreme in their style; that is, they have a super-stylised and almost unique way if drawing that cannot be compared to anyone else in the comics’ field: Jim Steranko Aline Kominsky-Crumb Alex NiƱo Dave McKean Mary Fleener Frank Miller Basil Wolverton Choose two artists form […]

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Part 3: Structures and Stories RT: Part 3

Research Task: ‘Silent Comics’

The two wordless graphic novels I chose for this research task were: My Book of Hours by Frans Masereel (1919) The Arrival by Shaun Tan (2006) Frans Masereel used woodcut prints to illustrate his black and white, graphic novel, My Book of Hours (1919), which creates very bold, definitive lines. I was impressed by how […]

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Part 3: Structures and Stories RT: Part 3

Research Task: “The Spirit”

I studied the supplied page of artwork from Will Eisner’s “The Spirit” and considered the following questions: What does the first panel establish in terms of place and atmosphere? The use of black for the sky and the street light establish that the story is taking place at night. The weather is clearly very turbulent, […]