Page 9 of Keiji Nakazawa graphic novel “Barefoot Gen” 

One of the graphic novel that I was able to look through and that really caught my attention on Tuesday’s class was Barefoot Gen vol 1, by Keiji Nakazawa. While glancing through this graphic novel one can see that there are many different forms of Point, Lines, and Planes being used throughout the novel. In Ellen Lupton and Jennifer C. Phillips book Graphic Design: The New Basics the authors describe  each of these terms as”building blocks of design”. Lupton and Phillips see a point as being the main focus in a design. One can see this on page 9 of Barefoot Gen, in which the artist creates a point or a focus point on some of  the panel (square). Specifically the one with the building and the one with the soldiers feet.  Out of all the panels in this page these two stands out that most  and draw the reader’s attention, due to them  being the only panel that are filled in with black in certain areas, to emphasis a feature .Throughout this page  there are also many forms of lines that add to the design of this novel. On page  9, one can see the use of lines to separate the squares that contain the different information that is going on throughout the story. One can also  notice the lines that help create the bridge and the path way on the top panel. The lines in this panel all start at one point ans lead the readers eyes to an end point. Throughout this page one can see that some lines are longer than other, as well as some being thicker than others. However, when a line excised as certain thickness it becomes a plane. According to Lupton and Phillips a point is a “flat surface extending in height and width”. So in between each comic strip there is a plane that helps divide each idea( or each panel) into its owns panel. These three design terms can be seen in many different graphic novels and in many different forms.