Comic book analysis

““Read” One or Two Pages of a Comic Book
Pick a small section of one of the three comic books we’re reading in class—just a page or a two-page spread
—and analyze the meaning that the artist conveys through the combination of words, drawings, and comicbook layout (panels, gutters—the white space between panels, insets, etc.). Once you’ve selected your specific
page or pages, you’ll want to describe and break down the images they contain in as much detail as you can
before connecting those images to other parts of the larger comic narrative.”
“A couple of things,: first of all, we’re not reading the full, book-length version of “Here” in this class so just take
a part of the six-page version to analyze and don’t worry about any later chapters or pages. Also, when you
write about it, don’t feel the need to underscore how it’s confusing or whether it has any superlatives for being a
treasure hidden in plan sight or anything of the type. This is just a comic book, not a full graphic novel, and to
call it a graphic novel suggests to me that you might be reading about it on the internet instead of analyzing it
on your own. By the end of your first page and into your second you’re doing some of the good work of specific
description this paper will require but you need to dig even deeper and more specifically into how the boy and
man is drawn and what that might mean.