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Final Web Comic- Joseph Gardner

My website. I really liked the idea of having a full-frame on one page. It makes it so you can put more detail into each frame, and the reader/ viewer can pay more attention to the small things. I used … Continue reading

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Final Poster Comic: Joseph Gardner

I made the comic into a clock shape. Instead of reading left to right, the reader views the coming clockwise starting on the lightest color to the darkest, which is at the top of the image. I think I could … Continue reading

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Individual Voices: Joseph Gardner

These are images from a zine called “Life Lines” by Mita Mahato. The comic is about losing a loved one. Throughout the zine, there are four lines as seen in the second picture. They slowly morph over time and create … Continue reading

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Invisible Emotion: Joseph Gardner

This is an image from Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The line quality in this scene conveys a sense of unease, tension, and shows that there is something sinister about it. In the next scene, it is revealed … Continue reading

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Closure and Time Frames: Joseph Gardner

This scene is primarily moment to moment. In this scene, the main character is lost in a dark room, wandering around aimlessly. In the first frame, he is entering the room. He continues walking in the second frame, which we … Continue reading

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Final Digital Comic Collage: Joseph Gardner

My comic fits into Scott McCloud’s definition “Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer” (McCloud pg 9) because I told a story through the image alone. … Continue reading

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Design Elements and Principles: Joseph Gardner

This is a page taken from Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. It is on page 114. This page talks about Subjective Motion, the idea that observing a moving object can be more immersive for the reader.  I believe that this particular … Continue reading

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Physical to Virtual: Joseph Gardner

On the first day that we visited the CDSC, I brought a bag filled with a dollar bill, a printed out picture with a label that says August, a quarter, and a wreath made up of paper circles. I ended … Continue reading

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Print Versus Digital Comic: Joseph Gardner

I was excited to hear that we would be making comics in this class. However, for my first post, I wasn’t sure of how to make a comic. I thought of comics as they traditionally appear in comic books and … Continue reading

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