Comix for artists : shiralee saul 2009 shiralee.saul@rmit.edu.au

Shiralee Saul [email_address] URLS Course Outline http://www.a-website.org/09rmit/index.html Course Network http://dagrmit.ning.com Personal site http://www.a-website.org/memory Comix for artists? Comix for artists : shiralee saul 2009 shiralee.saul@rmit.edu.au

Comix for artists : shiralee saul 2009 shiralee.saul@rmit.edu.au

Comix for artists : shiralee saul 2009 shiralee.saul@rmit.edu.au

Comics are simple? George Herriman ‘Krazy Kat’ Comix for artists : shiralee saul 2009 shiralee.saul@rmit.edu.au

Visual communication Comics are an especially complex instance of visual communication to both read and to create because they incorporate disparate elements within very tight conventions. Comix for artists : shiralee saul 2009 shiralee.saul@rmit.edu.au … sequential juxtaposed pictorial and other images arranged to impart information or create a response…

Story Plot Characterisation Character development Style Genre Staging Dialogue Comix for artists : shiralee saul 2009 shiralee.saul@rmit.edu.au George Herriman ‘Krazy Kat’

Plot

Characterisation

Character development

Style

Genre

Staging

Dialogue

Text as Image Comix for artists : shiralee saul 2009 shiralee.saul@rmit.edu.au Saul Steinberg

Image as language Readable conventionalised communications Signs and symbols Iconographic elements Kinaesthetics Body-language, gesture and expression Will Eisner

Readable conventionalised communications

Signs and symbols

Iconographic elements

Kinaesthetics

Body-language, gesture and expression

Making the invisible visible sound semiotics of speech balloons smell and feel internal states Dare Devil

sound

semiotics of speech balloons

smell and feel

internal states

Time -- Filmic conventions Text-image relationships Swampthing

Filmic conventions

Text-image relationships

The Meaning of Frames Semiotics Narrative device Visual style Spreads Super-panels Comix for artists : shiralee saul 2009 shiralee.saul@rmit.edu.au Kibuki

Semiotics

Narrative device

Visual style

Spreads

Super-panels

Perspective and POV Swampthing Comix for artists : shiralee saul 2009 shiralee.saul@rmit.edu.au

Saul Steinberg Art Spiegelmn