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<br />T.B McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646181527914780591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908207750019081616.post-9223556077955145772014-09-15T06:29:00.001-07:002014-09-19T00:09:45.724-07:00Penultimate afternoon: Monday 15 September 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Phong, Guy, Andreas, Jac and Travis (not to scale) working at lunchtime in at the Fitzroy High Comics Studio on our second-last day. </div>
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So once we have made cartoons and comic strips and comics pages and played with inks and inking, it's time to make our own comics. One way to 'write' comics is with a visual draft of the pages, all set out in panels. These draft pages are called 'thumbnails'. Here, I am showing the class some of the common mistakes made at this stage, which have been given a name by Australian cartoonist Pat Grant: he calls them 'thumb fails'.<br />
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And yes, the classroom clock does have whiskers.<br />
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James, Michael and Rohan checking out Bristol Board (the thick card that we will eventually transfer the drawings to). Yes the clock has ears, too. It's a comic clock cat.<br />
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Travis posed this question, essential to all comic book makers. Bernard tried to work out the metaphorical equivalents of eating an elephant to making a comic.<br />
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At work on the Comics Studio: Speed, Jac and Andreas at the front table. Michael, Luca, Aden, Rohan, Daniel and James behind.<br />
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Bernard and Liam thoughtfully consider his duck comic. Contrary to their expressions, it's hilarious.<br />
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Bernard and Guy chat about whether his comic should be called 'THE-Y' or 'THF-Y' or 'THY-F'. Important issues of the day.<br />
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The incredibly prolific Mitchell.<br />
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Working in-depth with Guy on the flow of his story.<br />
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Some more panel transitions from the School of Scott McCloud: moment-to-moment, action-to-action, subject-to-subject and scene-to-scene.<br />
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Moira and Mitchell work on his comic, about his upcoming holiday.<br />
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"Be different," I say to Robert Crumb, who is here coming down from the holy comics mountain, where the voice of the comics god has told him, 'Tell your truth'. The two comics commandments that he has brought down are: 1. 'Be clear', and 2. 'Find your voice'. (hm - I'm pretty <i>sure</i> that was the second commandment...)<br />
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Flik: dresses as a wolf, makes comics about wolves.<br />
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Monday, 18 August 2014. The intrepid Comics Studio group jumps the Brunswick Road bus, then the Sydney Road tram, and then ventures along Victoria Street by foot (or, let's be honest, by feet).</div>
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To fight for their right to Ty? To get their Hoe repaired? No, no, and again no. <br />
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HERE'S what they're looking for: 309 Victoria Street.<br />
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<a href="http://squishfacestudio.com/">Squishface Studio</a>!<br />
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Above: <a href="http://benhutchings.tumblr.com/">Ben Hutchings</a>, the instigator cartoonist of Squishface, was there to talk to us about the studio. So was co-founder <a href="http://www.nakedfella.com/">David Blumenstein</a>, whose face you can see, beautifully framed by the crooked arm of the grey-garbed figure in the bottom left of the photo.<br />
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Ben tells us, "Be a cartoonist." The hours are good, and if you can find a regular paying gig like he's been able to, then that leaves you time to make the comics and animations and music that you love doing. Then you can set up an open studio like Squishface with a group of cartoonist friends, put your work up on the walls,<br />
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I don't remember this part of the excursion. Maybe this is the white wormhole in space that we travelled through to get to the city, where we walked up Lonsdale Street in the lightly drifting rain and then travelled in instalments up the 9-people-at-a-time lift to... the <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/melbourne-comic-book-store-voted-worlds-best-20140728-zxr56.html">Eisner Award winning</a>... <a href="http://ascmelbourne.blogspot.com.au/">All Star Comics</a>!<br />
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Above, Mitchell Davies, who co-founded All Star with business partner Troy Varker, describes what they were setting out to achieve with the shop: a friendly and welcoming place where the people behind the counter are interested in the customers and are keen to talk with them about favourite titles, artists, and the art of comics. I reckon they have created a great space for comics in Melbourne, and they are very supportive of local creators too. He talked as well about the Eisner Award win for Retailing received during the recent San Diego Comic Con, and about the Free Comic Book Day events held at the shop and in surrounding alleyways (first weekend of May). I even got to find out that the All Star star is called a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_star">nautical star</a>. Never knew that.</div>
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Then some lunch (thanks to guides Chloe and Kallista) and then winding our way through the modern arcades of high capitalism (Emporium), then walking through the old Royal Arcade and the maze of lanes to Degraves Street, and then down, down down, to:<br />
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And there's Nicole and Matt and JC outside Sticky. Ah, Jean-Christophe! You are now <i>en route</i> back home to France! I'll miss your calm ways , and your drawing style - I hope you get to make some <i>bandes dessinees</i> of your own back at home...</div>
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And there's Luke Sinclair, up at the counter, giving us the <a href="http://www.stickyinstitute.com/">Sticky</a> story. They've had funding, from time to time, but these days they run as a real shop, existing on the 20% of cover price that they get off each zine that they sell there.<br />
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Back at school, after a long day of comics culture immersion, students were given the task to depict our excursion in a four panel strip. And they did:</div>
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Bernard Caleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15135259485261757108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908207750019081616.post-90504459709757421632014-08-21T19:06:00.000-07:002014-08-21T19:06:28.384-07:00closing the gapOne of the biggest issues an artist has in creating their work is the gap between what they want to make, and what they see on the page when they start to sketch.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/85040589">THE GAP by Ira Glass</a><br />
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If you don't have time for the video, there is a nice poster that sums the advice up too.<br />
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This is the gap we all must face as creators, but luckily there is help out there to bridge it. If you sit around hoping divine intervention will do it for you, you're going to have a bad time. Instead, we have google.<br />
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If I wanted to draw something complex, say a helicopter, for example, I might do something like this...<br />
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That's all well and good if my intention was to make a comic 'icon' of a helicopter, but what if my purpose was to make something closer to reality? In that case I have a wider gap to bridge...<br />
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I could get an image from <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?q=bad+helicopter&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ao_2U8f5BMuB8gX0koDACQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=643#q=helicopter&tbm=isch" target="_blank">google image search</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sketchup.com/" target="_blank">Google Sketchup</a> is a free 3D modeling tool, for PC or Mac. In it you can make just about anything, but what we need is even easier.<br />
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When you open the program, there is a 'get models' button that will take you to an online warehouse of existing models.<br />
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Search for what you want and when you have found a likely model, you select 'no' when it asks if you want to load directly into sketchup. This will download the model file, and then you can open it up directly.<br />
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Now it's open, you can see how the model looks...<br />
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But for our purposes, lets change the rendering (the way it looks) to make it easier to copy.<br />
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First go and set the face style to monochrome.<br />
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Now set the edge style to 'edges'<br />
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Now your model looks like this... much easier to see the lines and shadows. Play with the 'orbit tool' and rotate around your model to get an angle you like.<br />
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Using the 'pan' tool (it looks like a hand) you can move the view to center the model.<br />
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Now we can go to 'file' and 'export' to save a 2d image of your view.<br />
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These image references can be inserted into word and re-sized to match your intended panel size for your comic. Here is a good example from Matt, who found some building images as well as some helicopter models for his comic.<br />
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Once in word, this file can be printed, then you can trace or copy the relevant bits into your panels.<br />
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Doing this may seem like cheating, but it is the way artists have worked since antiquity.<br />
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This is an example of a 'camera obscura' which was a special room that projected a view onto a large piece of paper pinned to a wall for an artist to copy. This would then become the 'cartoon' from which they made their final artwork.<br />
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Closing the gap is the aim, use whatever tool you can to do so.<br />
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After Bernard's discussion on using local landscapes in his work, it was time for the students to have a go.<br />
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We went out to the yard, and with a paper frame as a composition guide, the students drew three panels.<br />
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#1 was a longshot<br />
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Back in the class it was time to get inking. The next task was to take a page from an existing comic. Each student was given a different page, and had to trace the outlines of the panel layout, as well as ink in one of the panels.<br />
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But this was just the beginning! The next job was to complete the narrative and fill in the panels that lead up to and continued on from the one they had inked.<br />
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All these images were then scanned and collated....<br />
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With a front cover designed by Aden<br />
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Travis.T.B McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646181527914780591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908207750019081616.post-44776736279205349612014-08-04T05:32:00.002-07:002014-08-04T07:17:37.054-07:00Day 7:Local LandscapesOne of the things I love doing in my comics is referring to my local landscape<br />
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This is from issue #2 of 'Yell Ole!', a comic I made with my friend Tolley back in 1994. We wrote it, he pencilled it, and I inked it. It's the staircase in the foyer of the State Library of Victoria, where the main characters Yell and Ole have just met the character Fraise, a poet. I wish I had used more black in this panel, but I still really like the way it reads - we read the characters lower and to the right first, agains reading order, because their speech balloons come first (that's Tolley's exquisite design and layout work).</div>
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Moving on, here's a page from 'Cafe Ghetto' #2 (1998), a superhero comic set in Melbourne. This was a collaboration with my friend John Murphy - we both wrote, he pencilled, and I inked (see the pattern?). The main character has just beat up a bad guy in the Queen Victoria Gardens and now he's crossing the Yarra on that footbridge from Southbank.</div>
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Here's a panel from my autobio mini-comic/zine 'Flaneur' #2 (2004) - this is all by me, and as you can see it's a lot rougher. This is about going with my friend JB to see the film 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' at ACMI, in the city. The ideas with the stories in 'Flaneur' is that the artwork could be looser, more direct to paper.</div>
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This on the other hand is from around the same time but this was a project I wanted to have a more finished look. 'I Knew Him' I started around 2004, but it was set in 1994. So it has a historical aspect, as when on this first page, the mother of the main character goes out to Melbourne Airport to pick him up, and in those days there was no enormous multistory parking monolith - all cars were parked on the ground.</div>
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A more recent project is MONGREL, this is page 1 from issue 2 from 2012. It takes place at Clifton Hill train station and around the corner on Ramsden Street. The best panel on the page I think is</div>
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Many other cartoonists in Melbourne like to portray the city in their comics too:</div>
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Here's a panel from Bruce Mutard's graphic novel, 'The Sacrifice' (2008). This book is set before and during the second world war, and we are -- well, where ARE we on the streets of Melbourne, as some Australian and American soldiers have a punch-up?</div>
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And here's a panel from Mandy Ord's 2006 autobio graphic novel, 'Rooftops'. An incredibly, indelibly Melbourne scene, this, but can you identify the t-intersection that Mandy is standing at?</div>
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So far, we've been using comics to presenting narratives, to tell stories: what happened to the Fat Cat Mat Lady, the meeting between the object and the character and what happened there. As we get closer to making our own comics stories to go into the anthology, I'd like to look at another approach. Let's expand our comics toolbox by looking at, and making, comics that tell space rather than story. That create an atmosphere. In this comics page, by Australian comics maker Anthony Woodward, he's showing us aspects of Comics Camp.</div>
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The North American comics theorist Scott McCloud famously identified these sort of page layouts as 'aspect to aspect transitions' in his great 1993 book, 'Understanding Comics'. Here's his example:</div>
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Here's thumbnails of pages 2 and 3 of a 5 page story called 'The Letter' by New York comics artist <a href="http://callingthedog.blogspot.com.au/">Jess Ruliffson,</a><br />
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And this one's by <a href="http://satisfactorycomics.blogspot.com.au/2007/09/page-4-thumbnails-little-early.html">Isaac Cates</a> - I'm particularly interested in that bottom tier, where he's drawn that bottom image bigger to indicate what goes in that second last, empty panel. Also the notes all around, indicating dialogue. Nice stuff.<br />
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<br />Bernard Caleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15135259485261757108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908207750019081616.post-37371785196771201372014-07-28T07:08:00.001-07:002014-07-29T02:42:12.990-07:00Day 4: Sounds like Teen Comics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Day 4, Travis took us through Onomatopoeia (Q: How do you spell onomatopoeia? A: Just the way it sounds) He discussed 'QLUNQ!' in the strip above, and also 'PAAAF!' from Asterix, which, as Damien pointed out, sounds less like a tree hitting a Roman legionary in the head, and more like 'a balloon filled with flour hitting your face'. Good point.<br />
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He talked about Roy Lichetenstein's 'WHAAM!' (1963) - for a great article about that painting, and the 1962 Irv Novick comic book art that inspired it, have a look at comics theorist Paul Gravett's piece, <a href="http://www.paulgravett.com/index.php/articles/article/the_principality_of_lichtenstein">here</a>.<br />
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After telling us the story of JRR Tolkien's favourite phrase*, Travis got us to convert sound effects into onomatopoeias. We then went on to produce 3 panel comic strips in which the sound effects were the main focus - very satisfying.<br />
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Now play with scale. Put another character next to your object to give it some scale. While you're at it, add noise--either dialogue or some onomatopeias to give a reaction between the characters.<br />
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<br />Bernard Caleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15135259485261757108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908207750019081616.post-23507200052665686892014-07-24T19:45:00.001-07:002014-07-27T03:42:05.764-07:00Day 4. Sound and vision<span style="font-size: large;">Part 1. In which sounds are heard.</span><br />
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Comics are visual, but so much of their meaning comes from the sound they imply. Be it direct dialogue or narration, most panels in a comic are full of implied sound. Like this example from Dick Tracy.</div>
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The most interesting panel in this is the final one. The 'QLUNQ' really makes me feel the sound of a briefcase full of cash hitting a skull. There is actually a word for these kind of words. <b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia" target="_blank">onomatopoeia</a></i></span></b></div>
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Each genre of comic has their own conventions of these sound-words. </div>
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Old action comics have the classics like 'POW!' and 'THUMP!' made famous by the kitsch 'Batman' tv show, and even artists like<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein" target="_blank"> Roy Lichtenstein </a> who made high art out of the comics he read as a boy.</div>
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But sometimes D.C was a little too literal. (not sure a fist exploding a face makes that sound)</div>
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Visualizing words this way is great, but when it comes to character voice, it would take over the page to have every speech bubble filled with exploding bold lettering.</div>
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In this Wolverine example, you can see everything coming together. We have th<span style="font-family: inherit;">e onomatopoeias of '<b>SNIKT</b>' and '<b>KRRIIIPP</b>!' and Wolverine's dialogue in the last panel is divided between two speech bubbles, the second clearly conveying that he is yelling. </span></div>
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Joseph Pulitzer's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_World" target="_blank">'New York world'</a> became the most popular newspaper primarily because of the work of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Outcault" target="_blank">Richard F. Outcault</a> and his 'Yellow Kid' cartoon.<br />
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In the cultural melting pot of New York, the only language everyone shared was cartoons. But the most important thing is the inclusion of dialogue on the 'Yellow kid's' shirt.<br />
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Then in 1928 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Foster" target="_blank">Hal Foster</a> made the Tarzan comic strip, an adaptation of the adventure novels by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Rice_Burroughs" target="_blank">Edgar Rice Burroughs</a>, Unlike the cartoon work we have seen so far, these panels are framed like a film, with multiple views of the action, and there was much more realism to the characters. This is also a good example of the 'democratic strip,' where each panel is the same size and the action is spread out sequentially. Text however, was limited primarily to the caption narration.</div>
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In this Calvin and Hobbes we can see the combination of both streams of comic history. There is the action of Tarzan, as well as the gags of Krazy Kat. But there is also something else, something more poignant--something that comics can do perhaps better than all other art forms. In this Calvin and Hobbes, the focus is on <i>Imagination</i></div>
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The students were given the homework task of collecting at least 2 images from comics they love. Printed out and stuck into their books, it was time to analyse what they saw.<br />
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T.B McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646181527914780591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908207750019081616.post-37170157440182022862014-07-16T06:32:00.006-07:002014-07-16T06:32:59.669-07:00Day 2. Ready, set, go.Today Bernard started the kids off with a <i>4draw</i> activity. In 4 boxes, draw 4 cats. But the trick is the timing.<br />
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Cat #1 you get a minute, Cat #2, 30seconds, Cat #3, 15 seconds. And of course, Cat #4, 5 seconds flat.</div>
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Bernard made the point that a cartoon is less about an image, as it is an <i>icon.</i><br />
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And icons have the same power as words. We <i>read</i>, more than merely look at them, and when you bring both together, something powerful can happen.<br />
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To start, the students were given 3 separate sticky notes and 3 separate cards to draw on.<br />
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Now it is time to assemble the images. Bernard's instructions: Put the text and images together in any combination you want until something happens.<br />
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After the students perused each others' work, their cartoons were stuck into their folios.<br />
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But making cartoons is only step 1, we are here to make <i>comics</i>.<br />
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What is the difference, you ask? Well, take a look at this image.<br />
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You might have noticed that this ink on paper drawing, 'Hunting Emu' (1880), by artist <a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcrae-tommy-13074">Tommy McCrae</a> (1823 - 1901) has something more than mere iconography. There is a distinct separation of images that are none-the-less linked in a relationship. Lets get Bernard to help us a little more.<br />
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The following example from Garry Larson <i>is not</i> a comic. It is comedic, but alas, only a cartoon.<br />
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But this one is different.<br />
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See--what we need is more than one image, more than an icon or text. We need sequence, we need the space <i>between</i> panels. What we really need, is <i>time</i>.<br />
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Travis.<br />
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Getting to know the student the only way a comic creator can, by making a portrait of each member of the class.<br />
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The 2014 FHS comics class:<br />
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Some students decided their avatar was going to become their new facebook profile.<br />
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So what are comics? Bernard takes the students through a short history.<br />
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Some choice quotes from students in question time:<br />
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'Comics are about making pictures that can be read.'<br />
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'Comics can ramble but pictures can't'<br />
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We read shape, just like words, so if you can draw a smiley face then you can make a comic.<br />
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Task one: emotion, in which the students learn what <a href="http://dw-wp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/emanata-Clay.png">emanata</a> are.<br />
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Task two: motion in which Bernard strikes a pose.<br />
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Task three: Worth one-thousand.<br />
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Hunger games in three panels<br />
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Can you guess the story the students distilled into one panel?<br />
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<br />T.B McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646181527914780591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908207750019081616.post-6974324006397944392014-06-28T03:54:00.003-07:002014-06-28T03:58:22.194-07:00welcome This blog will document the next 12 weeks of comic creation at Fitzroy High in Melbourne.<br />
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Local artist, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Caleo">Bernard Caleo</a>, will be working with a group of 20 students from year 8, 9 and 10 to help them create their very own comic strips, zines and graphic novels.<br />
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Bernard will oversee the publication of both a digital and print anthology that showcases the students' work.T.B McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646181527914780591noreply@blogger.com0