MONTHLY FIELD REPORT.

From Volume XLIV, No. IV, JANUARY 2009.

Excerpt:

      « An interesting observation of the gutter in the suicidal-jump scene that happens to emphasize the visual affectiveness of it is the idea—in relation to the absent, implied interim images—that the interactive participants are actually stripped of their privileged objective perspectives and subsequently demoted to an experience shared by the citizens [...] »

Referenced Scenes:

Fig. 6
Fig. 7


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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