Comic+Creation



( external link to my comic : http://img11.yfrog.com/img11/3766/page1k.png ) Two characters are introduced in the beginning and they seem to be playing the guitar together. Then the guy with a hat comes up with the idea of creating a band with his buddy and performing at the theatre to get famous and rich. The other guy likes the idea and hesitantly accepts the responsibility of making a name for the band. He spends some time coming up with a bunch of names for the band and finally picks one. A month later when their band is performing at the theatre, the guy with the hat notices that not even a single person has showed up for their event. He wonders that maybe people do not know about the show and asks his friend if their band name is posted on the front door sign. He replies yes. Little did the guy with the hat know that his friend named the band ‘NO SHOWS’.
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I drew everything myself and changed the story line to fulfill the requirements for this assignment.**
 * This Idea was taken from a comic by Logan Whitehurst []

__Analysis__**

As stated above, I was looking on the web searching for comic ideas when I found this comic. The original comic had only two panels and very short. I decided to re-write the story and add five more panels to it to give the reader a bit more information and enhance the humour a bit. I then decided to name the band “NO SHOWS’ because a lot of the bands out there actually have weird names that hardly relate to anything. I tried to not give a lot of details to the comic and the characters (only a little so the reader can differentiate the two) so that more people can relate to this. This idea is similar to what Scott McCloud explains in “Understanding Comics”, that a more simplified drawing can represent many people. Readers can see themselves in the comic (McCloud).

The panel-to-panel transitions I used in my comic are action-to-action and subject-to-subject. An example of action-to-action transition is when in the beginning the guy with the hat tells his friend that they should form a band, then the next panel shows them deciding on who should come up with a name for the band. This is true since the transitions are “featuring a single subject in distinct action-to-action progressions”(McCloud). The next transition I implemented into this comic is a subject-to-subject type. This is seen in the transition between the last two panels of the comic where the two characters are wondering why nobody is present at their show, then the next panel shows the sign and the reader understand why. This is so, because according to McCloud, subject-to-subject transitions require a degree of reader involvement while staying within a scene or idea to render these transitions meaningful.

Word balloons have a big impact on what kind of speech or text is being conveyed. They help the reader understand the message better. This is seen through out my comic. I used two styles of balloons. The first one is used for the regular communication between the characters. The other balloon style is used in the panel where the character is trying to come up with a band name and is having inner thoughts with himself. The other important element of comics is the kind of font that is used. The fonts used in my comic are playful and innocent and it reflects the title name. According to Scott McCloud, comics are all about what happens between the panels since it is where the reader’s imagination takes place. This plays a huge role in my comic when there is a month gap in between a couple of my panels. The reader could imagine anything at that moment such as: the characters are practicing for their big show.

**__Works Cited__**
McCloud, Scott. //Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art.// New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. Print.

I drew everything myself and changed the story line to fulfil the requirements for this assignment.**
 * This Idea of my comic was taken from Logan Whitehurst []