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Small Work: Three Panel Comic

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Reading: What is Comics Poetry?

  I thought it was interesting when Rothman said that the earliest form of poem's came from oral traditions. It's quite obvious, but I just never thought about it in that way, and it make's a lot of sense. I also agree with Rothman's way of "defining" comics, which he said was "The form as one that uses images the way other kinds of writing use words". The reason I think that people understand comics almost intuitively, is because its made up of elements and sounds that they probably hear in their everyday lives. For example, when a comic artist writes "vroom" under a car you instinctually know that its the sound the car is making. Rothman described this a the comic artist creating a visual language, I never thought of it that way and it totally makes sense.

  Rothman talks about the different components that do into making creative decisions and how that will impact the reaction of the person that is reading. Briefly he talks about  the difference a black and white comic can be to a colored comic. I personally think that color is more appealing to look at. Howeve black and white, if used in a beautiful way, can be just as appealing. For example I will use two comics I I have at my home. One is and American comic, "harley quinn issue 1". This is a fully colored comic and is obvious how much time has been poured into it. also it is absolutely beautiful to look through. My other comic example is a Japanese comic, "One Piece vol. 1". This comic is black and white but is also very beautiful to look at. The black and white images leave for a lot of imagination for the reader. Overall, Rothman made a lot of points that I had not thought about before.

WARP First Post

Labels Help You Organize

All blog posts must be labeled with two keywords, which blogger calls Labels. When faculty visits your blog for evaluation purposes, we will use the labels to quickly find your work. If you do not use the keywords properly, we will not be able to find your work. Proper set-up and maintenance of your blog falls under the Research and Participation part of your grade which counts for 30% of the overall semester grade. 

Topical Keywords

The first set of keywords correspond to the module we are working in. We will refer to these as topical keywords since they correspond to the topic we are exploring over the two-week periods. Your first group of posts will be labeled under Topic: Creative Impulse since this is the first topic (Topic #1). Here are the topical keywords you will use through out the semester:

Topic: Creative Impulse

Topic: Pattern and Ornament

Topic: Rhinoceros

Topic: Narrative

Topic: Landscape

Topic: Zine

Categorical Keywords

The second set of keywords will organize your posts according to kind. Here are the Keywords you will use for Labels:

Exercises - tag for posts documenting all assigned exercises. The first one will be the paper folding exercise from the first class. 

Readings - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to the assigned readings. The first ones will be for "The White Bird" and the Jerry Saltz article from Vulture.com. 

Small Works - tag for posts documenting all assigned small works. The first blog post labeled Small Works will contain images and accompanying descriptions of the three small works you complete for the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1). 

In-Depth Projects - tag for posts documenting all assigned In-Depth projects. The first blog post labeled In-Depth Projects will contain images (or video if appropriate) and accompanying descriptions of the more robust work you produce in response to the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1).

Outside Visits - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to all required visits outside of the classroom. These include visits we do together as a class [during class time] or individually outside of class time. 

Please be sure to use both a topical and categorical keyword when labeling your posts.