MONTHLY FIELD REPORT.

From Volume XLIV, No. I, SEPTEMBER 2008.

Excerpt:

      « The Super-Man scene (or set of scenes) that I would like to focus on in JC specifically involves a Super-Man character committing suicide. I would like to suggest that the most visually shocking moment is the suicidal-jump scene itself, which I will carefully scrutinize [...] »

Referenced Scenes:

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Workes Cited:

Groensteen, Thierry. The System of Comics. Trans. Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen. Jackson: Mississippi UP, 2007.

Kress, Gunther and Theo van Leeuwen. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2006.

McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Ware, Chris. Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.



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