Words and Image Comics

 

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 Design is meant to appeal to their audience which combines both words and images to get a message across to the audience. One type of design that links to this entirely is that of comics. Comics are meant to be simplistic in that it uses panels  which depict a different scene in each  and the character design is basically stripped down the basic elements, lacking that f detail.

Last Tuesday, a special treat was in store for Professor Housefields class in which a guest lecturer by the name of Brian Fies can by to speak. Brian Fies is a graphic novelist or in other terms a comic book author, who wrote two novels one entitles Mom’s Cancer which depicts his real life story of his mother’s fight against lung cancer and the problems both physical/emotionally in which his mother and his family had to deal with and the second book, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? , which is more of a fictional based story between the 1930’s-1970’s of technology. During the lecture Fies pointed out several ways in which comics convey a conversation and expresses some important information within a few panels. Take for instance the scene of his mom aging. In one panel it shows a cartoon image of his mother, and through five-seven drawing panels shows his mother before cancer with that of having hair to several years later with his mother already facing the problem of cancer. It is through comics that so much information is told within a few seconds which would not have been effective if the media was not designed as a comic.