Author Archives: elisedetloff

     For my poster comic I’m planning to illustrate my experience with music and how both my taste in music and my musical activities have changed over the years. My main background is going to be my first marching band … Continue reading →

According to Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillip’s Graphic Design: The New Basics, layers are simultaneous, overlapping components of an image or sequence. And an artist that embodies the use of layers extremely consistently has to be Lynda Barry. In … Continue reading →

Lynda Barry’s graphic novel What It Is has a very distinct and unique art style that sets it apart from other books in its genre. From the collage-esque cuttings of paper to the rough handwriting scribbles on lined paper, Barry … Continue reading →

  Maira Kalman’s The Principles of Uncertainty is such a vibrant and colorful graphic novel that there are many wonderful examples of how hues interact with each other. Hues are the specific place on the spectrum where the color is. … Continue reading →

While being quite a basic comic, Perfect Example by John Porcellino is a coming-of-age story that represents movement in a static, 2-dimensional space very well. Being able to portray motion, the movement of bodies, and the passage of time can … Continue reading →

This two-page spread from Maira Kalman’s The Principles of Uncertainty is an excellent example of how scale can be interpreted objectively and subjectively. Scale isn’t just size, but the interpretation of that size literally or based off of experiences or … Continue reading →

  The first 50 pages of the graphic novel, What It Is by Lynda Barry, explores very heavy ideas such as the loss of innocence and imagination that comes with age. Many of the pages feature text that asks questions … Continue reading →