ART

Reading a comic book is almost totally a visual experience.

Compare the various depictions of Batman

Batman’s sacrifice

Batman vs. the Joker

Batman as Bruce Wayne

Images in a comic book do not exist in isolation; they are encapsulated in a panel, and each panel exists within larger units of meaning—the page, the sequence, and the story.

Question 1

Which slide tells you THE MOST about the relationship between Superman and Wonder Woman?

Question 2

Identify the ART ELEMENTS (composition, art style, sensory diegentic images, non-sensory diegentic images and hermeneutic images) that led you to make that choice.

Narrative Paradigm

Coherence

Character outfit/appearance consistent with canon

Movie casting consistent with print character.

Background mis en scene consistent with current time frame

Fidelity

Gender specific positioning mis enscene

Foregrounding or backgroundingmarginalized characters

Symbolic Convergence Theory

The “Unexpected”

Music/soundtrack that isconsistent/inconsistent with movie environment

Background art that is consistent/inconsistent with plot time period

Character “look” influenced by movie

Dramatizing Message

Fan art

Artist sketches

Cosplay

Fan videos

Narrative Paradigm—character image Fidelity appropriation of American values and/or coherence character/plot

consistency lead to acceptance of a worldview

EXTERNAL ANALYSIS—context for the character and plot

INTERNAL ANALYSIS—descriptions of imagery mis en scene or layout

ARGUMENTS

What does the inconsistency between character and image mean?

What does the incorporation of X value into Y character mean?

"How to fix every Strong Female Character pose in superhero comics: replace the character with Hawkeye doing the same thing."

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http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/