Point, Line, and Plane: Andrese Collins

The comic Butt To The Future by Taylor Dew is an unique and adventurous fats paced comic about a young women, Mary, who leaves to the bathroom to take a “poop” and ends up flushing into the toilet. She then flushes out into a new bathroom which leads to a new dimension known as the FUTURE!

In this scene, Mary is shown being spouted out by the toilet. There are various sized panels which helps state how significant each panel plays to the point of the scene. Mary is the focal point of the page which is why Mary is visible in every panel expect for the 1st one. Even when Taylor emphasizes Mary’s glasses, she draws out Mary’s hand but with rigged-edges to show the reader how hard it is for Mary to see without her glasses. Taylor Dew uses an assortment of lines and dots to control the space in and out of the planes within the panels. In the center panel, Taylor focuses on Mary’s recovery from the fall by shading in all of the background space that surrounds Mary. Taylor also used many small dots to help express the distraught that Mary was experiencing.

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Page 3 of Taylor Dew’s Butt To the Future. Image from Taylor Dew. Tumblr. 2013

Last, Taylor uses a consistent amount of contrast between black and white to express specific details and addresses a sense of reality that may not be common in most comics. A good example of negative spaces relating is in the 5th panel where Mary’s glasses are by the puddle of toilet water drenching from her. The puddle of water and to the glasses look different whether its under the white or black tiles. When the water and glasses lens is on black tiles, the inside of the objects are shaded or drawn in. And when the water is on the white tiles it lacks inner details expect for the single water drops.

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