Point Line and Plane: Noah Martin

I have chosen to analyze a section of a graphic novel that was available in the CDSC during Thursday’s class. This was one of four illustrations on a large fold able 4 panel board. Each image showed the same building but at different times, with different people and events. The building acts as a background with illustrations showing what is happening within the image. The artist uses lines and symbols to connect imagery with with the background. For example near the top left an arrow points to a window of the building, then connected to that arrow is an image of the same window from the perspective of inside the building. The image and arrow act as a point and line together. The comic is especially interesting to me because it can be seen as one image but can be read many different ways. The series of images on the top right is the largest group signaling to the reader that this is the most important part of the story, were as the scattered images on the left appear to give context to the story. The bottom section is the only sequence that follows a horizontal plane which makes it seem as if it is separate from the events pictured above but still relevant to the story because it is still on the page. Overall this comic is very unique in its layout and use of lines to connect important points of the images story and alignment of frames to give a sense of direction.

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