CHAPTER 9
This chapter is a summary of the previous 8 chapters. Each chapter is listed below with a basic summary.
Chapter 1 – Explains how comics are more then cartoons. He also explains how not all comics are for children’s eyes and how more and more comics are for adult audiences (because of the themes etc)
Chapter 2 – Scott discusses sequential art and how simplistic lines can represent a face etc. He explains how these simple lines etc can be interpreted in different ways with different viewers. I
Chapter 3 - This chapter explains how people are made to use their imaginations. Scenes are omitted by an artist for a reason. Not only does it save time for an artist to create but it allows a viewer/reader to fill in the blanks.
Chapter 4 – discusses how time and movement can be shown in comics with the use of lines, captions and frames.
Chapter 5 – Talks of line weights, and how these line weights depict different emotions. For example. Dark bold lines represent anger etc.
Chapter 6 – Explains how comics are not just pictures. Comics can be pictures, words or a combination of both.
Chapter 7 – Describes the six steps to creating a great comic. (Ideas/ Purpose, form, idiom, structure, craft and surface)
Chapter 8 – Discusses how colour has changed the way we look at comics. It also questions comic books content. Would you buy a comic which is colour on the surface with no great content or a plain black and white comic with purpose?
This book has changed the way I look at comics by giving me a better understanding of how they are created and their importance. I was never much of a fan of comics but now I have more respect for them and the artists who create them.
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