Blankets

Blankets is the autobiography of the author  Craig Thompson. For me personaly I did not find this graphic novel appealing. I mean I understand its well written and nicely exicuted. But it got too Zac Effrony for me. I'm just had a hard time finishing the book due to the fact it was very emotional. After I read Blankets I imeaditly read Hellboy and Savage Dragon comic. Which I found way more appealing, like who dosent want to read a slugfest like that. 

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Nemo

While reading Little Nemo, I found the story or the adventures he would go on not that exciting. But the art  work on the other hand was very eye pleasing. The Layout of the panels was very graphic with the use of margins and in the latter published panels got a more modern graphic design look. I enjoyed that there was a new adventure every week. The one thing that kind of was an eye opener was how psychedelic some of the designs and layouts where. It was cool that someone was doing that type of style while not on acid. At least I don't think he would of.

Understanding comics

In Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics their are many interesting things that I have not noticed before while reading a comic book. One of the things that was an eye opener for me was in chapter four, time frames. The idea that we could see and understand time in comics, but not as a single moment but almost in real time. The thing that tricks are brain into the illusion of time is sound, closure and words. After reading the chapter it was like a light bulb went off in my head. I realized that I have spent a good one too, two minutes on a single panel because I was tricked into the idea of time. The way Scott uses a rope as an example of time passing through a panel is genius. He made it very easy for people to understand that there can be time and motion in comics. But also in that time and motion is where you get a sense of emotion and humanistic feeling. Basically what I got from this book is that the author is a genius in describing how you would understand a comic.