Ha. Now no one can accuse me of doing an online comic just because I wanted an easy way out of this sketchbook assignment. If it wanted something easy I would have sat down with my dream-symbols book, my watercolors, and bullshit my way through a composition.
It worked for sis all of last year.
But before I went off on that tangent, I've spent much of today (read: the past six hours) researching and evaluating (web) comic theory. It's quite an amazing subject to study. Mainly because the media is essentially a juxtaposition of images with text.
Which in of itself is quite amazing if one would consider Scott McCloud's triangle diagram of symbols, literature, and art. Essentially, whenever art focused on hyper-realism literature became more abstracted and eloquent (ex. the Edwardian period), and vice versa (ex. the Pop Art movement). And then both subjects become symbols (i.e. icons, letters, phrases, etc.) as their importance increases.
So, for those who are curious (or actually stayed around to read this part) here are two very informative sites that I highly recommend poking around in: www.ScottMcCloud.com and www.JohnBarberComics.com.
I have yet to get through that 50+ paper on layouts as narrative devices, so I doubt I'll have the strength to go shopping tomor... erm, today. Blech.
And I thought Chicago came out in Vegas today, but apparently it's only in selected theaters. Damn.
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