Reading Assignment: This week we are reading a work in words and pictures. The featured work is My Favorite Thing is Monstersby Emil Ferris. If, by some chance, you have already read My Favorite Thing is Monsters, then you can read Asterios Polyp a graphic novel by David Mazzuchelli. Both these novels are an exemplars of graphic narrative, weaving word and image in a well-coordinated approach to telling a story that is meant for adults. The writing, the illustration, the graphic design, the visual development are all extremely well-executed while not overshadowing the experience of the story. These works have layers and density like most works of a literary nature and unfold most over multiple readings.
Writing Assignment: Please post a response on whatever you read for this week to the discussion topic for this week on Canvas. Discuss what aspects of the narrative embody the author's "voice" as they are expressed in the medium of the graphic narrative, the story that is told in both words and pictures, and that we, in the United States, call "comics." How is this unique quality of "voice" expressed both in words and pictures.
If you are interested, here is a link to the definitive Comics Journal interview with Emil Ferris which gives background and insight into her and her work.
Another Interesting Interview with her in Paste Magazine.
A link to The Bite that Changed My Life, a short autobiographical comic about the artist contracting West Nile Virus and becoming paralyzed.
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