Wow!
Comic Books are fun!
They are a great visual medium. And they are a great way to tell a story.
One of Jorge Cham’s latest editions in his PhD comic series is on an interview that was held with Keegan Lannon at Comic-Con. Keegan is a PhD student and is studying “the narrative of comic books“. (Yep – it seems that Comic-Con has an intellectual side.)
This edition struck me on many levels:
The Content
Keegan describes his study. It’s on how comic books tell stories. “What does the mind do as it scans across the page and sees all the words, and put something together. What can we learn about information and communicative process by the way narratives tell stories.”
Keegan has even created a Taxonomy of Word Functions in Comics:
- Neurolingustic Text – Speech/Thought bubbles
- Sound Effects – Motivated/Unmotivated
- Narrative Text – Intra/Extradiegetic
- Printed Text – Consequential/Incidental
Keegan provides an interesting description of the difference between films, books and comics.
One fascinating thing that resonated with me was the observation that Keegan made about the power of a graphic. People can write many, many words to describe something when a good graphic and a caption can be just as powerful.
The Presentation
The way that Jorge put this edition together is amazing. Instead of just having a film of the interview, he made amazing use of various ways to present the information.
Jorge uses different ways of capturing various topics into panels. He also emphasises main points by adding speech bubbles, as well as extra drawings.
What could have been a mildly interesting way of capturing information from a PhD student is turned into something very, very captivating!
It’s a well spent 4 minutes and 43 seconds!
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