Week 1A

The beginning of class to today was lots of housekeeping and just going over the syllabus.This is the second class I have with James so most of it was the same as earlier today. On the syllabus there three projects scheduled a comic strip, a self contained comic page, and then a complete comic book. I am really looking forward to doing the comic book because I’ve tried to make comic before but almost always stop them early because It is hard to do something like that on the side, but having it as a project like this means that I will complete it. I am also interested in the comic strip too, unfortunately I do not think I am all that funny so I will have to reach deep for that. For the second half of class we watched a TED talk from Scott McCloud the author of our text book. It was very interesting and made me consider the future of comics in a way that I never had before in how they will evolve with the computer. Another thing that McCloud brought up was about the empty space between panels and how important it is in showing the passage of time in comic. When I have done comics before I butted panels up next to each other and was not happy with it and now I understand why.