Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Blankets

Blankets! I just thought I'd add some emphasis to the book title in my blog post. Anyways, Nels was totally right about the way in which Thompson illustrates things as opposed to Bechdel. Their style is very different. Bechdel's lines were flowy and curvy. Lots of contoured and implied lines. But here, with Thompson, his lines are straight and harsh. Also, COLOR is a difference. Bechdel had the gloomy pale blue, almost gray color. Here, Thompson keeps it simple with black. No watercolor accents here, just straight illustration(but he does use lots of shadowing..). The faces that Thompson draws are simpler than that of Bechdels. She uses lots and lots of detail to depict the story. Thompson, definitely pays attention to detail but in different ways and on different things. The way he draws himself is simple. The nose is an open rectangle and his eyes are small black dots. The way he depicts Raina isn't as simple. If you look at it more closely it almost looks like two different comics blended nicely together. It's just two very different ways to draw two very different people. Does he draw himself simply on purpose? (he must...) ANYWAYS, i spent way too much time talking about the lines used within the comics. (not even my topic) But its something that intrigued me from the start.

So far, so good. The story is interesting. I like the way he shifs back and forth in time. I actually prefer the way he does it over Bechdel's style of transitions. Example: pg. 57. Thompson does a flashback within a panel. This caught my eye and i kinda liked it. It added emphasis to the current panel and flow of ideas.

Also pg. 52. Where He's falling and getting older. Definitely a cool way to show time change.

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