Today, in English class, we took a look at "Sin City" and "Ghost World," two graphic novels portraying different things. Graphic novels are an interesting narrative as they include both words and pictures to further their story. More often than not, analyzing the art is just as important as analyzing the text, sometimes even more so.
We were asked to bring in a section of a comic book to analyze. I decided to bring in a comic based on the "Aliens" franchise. I did this partly because I enjoyed the aliens movie, partly because I found the art within the book to be rather interesting, and mostly because it was the only physical copy of a graphic narrative I had access to.
Before this class I never really paid much attention to comic books, only really knowing a series existed after I saw a movie based on it. I had no idea how much there was to analyze in this medium.
Analyzing Ghost World and Sin City was one of my favorite things we did in this class. Although I'm not an avid graphic novel reader, I have read about a half dozen of them. My favorite graphic novel is with out question Watchmen. The art as well as the text through out the novel is awesome. Graphic novels are the most interesting narrative to me, mainly because how the art and text work together to give the reader a better sense of the characters and plot development. I brought in a comic from the Watchmen graphic novel, although it's my favorite graphic novel there are many other great one's out there.
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