The Secret Language of Comics: Visual Thinking and Writing

Maus Reflection

This assignment is different than anything I have done previously for any other classes. Not only did choosing the pages take the long time, so did the tracing process.  The process made me realize what I am drawn to first, which later led me to understand Spiegelman’s choice of moment, image, flow, word, and frame…

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Maus Reflection Post

This project was a very big jump from what I’m used to writing. I’m not at all comfortable with the quality of my writing because it just doesn’t seem like anything I would turn in by choice. I liked writing in a more casual tone but definitely was not entirely comfortable using that tone. I […]

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Maus Analysis Reflection

After doing this assignment I was able uncover many aspects of Maus that I had missed before. The tracings really helped me understand what Speigelman was thinking while he was drawing the panels. The tracings helped me understand why he drew some characters and objects the way he did. Before, I thought he was just drawing characters […]

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Audience Engagement

Spiegelman attempts to keep the audience engaged with his work by implementing camera angle shifts, as well as variety in panel structure. When placing the panel styles for both pages side-by-side, it may seem like they are pages from two different authors’ styles altogether. Both of these pages are critically designed to keep the audience […]

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“Yours in Sisterhood”, Ours in Life

“Walking back in case I die”

When you watch things on a screen, they seem distant, almost fiction. It’s not that I don’t believe that the women that were shown, one after another, did not experience the discrimination and frustration that they claimed, I simply felt that it existed in their universe and not my own. Irene Lusztig goes to great lengths to bridge that gap between women, most notably between those of the past (1970s) and of the present. … Continue reading “Yours in Sisterhood”, Ours in Life

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