For this week I chose one of the newspaper strips I found last week, this one by Charles Schultz. All of those, including this one, were found in my mom's box of newspaper clippings. This one in particular is her favorite.
I have hardly read any newspaper comics before, and of the few I have read I don't think any of them were peanuts, so this might be my first experience reading the comics.
compared to the graphic novels we've been looking at and the action comic books, this one seemed pretty boring at first. I noticed how the top half is a mirror in framing and panel placement of the bottom half. The shots are all fairly stagnate, but that actually helps draw attention to the part that is changing, the snow. If the framing were changed too much, I might not notice how the weather was differing.
The speech bubbles also help to break up pattern a little. While the panels with speech bubbles are mirroring each other the sizes are not, making the comic more interesting.
Why do you think they might be intentionally more simple than action comics? How is the simplicity a strength?
ReplyDeletepart of why their simple is because of the rate at which they get published, but another part is the narrative itself. if any of the panels were different or complicated, it would draw attention, possibly making someone in a newspaper jump straight to that panel, ruining the intended effect. also by keeping the drawings simple, it places more emphasis on the words and minor changes from panel to panel, making it easier to understand what's going on.
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