"Little Nemo: In the Palace of Ice" - (Week 3)

In the "Little Nemo: In the Palace of Ice" shows an interesting comic technique of having a narrative-like text in the spaces of each box. The text serving a purpose of explaining a deeper explanation into the scene dialogue doesn't tell. The text is written almost as if the comic is the script for a movie and the narrative text is directive notes of each scene.

In "The Complete Peanuts Vol. 1" each page has multiple stories in it as each comic strip (4-5 panels) tells a encounter or small story. Some comic strips being as simple as showing the weather and the passing of two characters without proper dialogue to each other. One thing particularly interesting about this comic is how different the style is compared to the Charlie Brown we know of today. Despite the different style, we are still aware this is a Charlie Brown comic.

The next comic I read was "Calvin and Hobbes: Something Under the Bed". With this comic we get closer to how we see most comics today, as an actual story within multiple pages. Having a comic with this layout gives the artist more room for dynamic angles or different composition. With comic strips, you can only fit so much within it to tell the story, thus having to make the story very simple. When expanding to tell a story, the artist can expand on details and scenes for complex stories.

The final collection of comics I looked at were the Rube Goldberg selections. Those comics were particularly interesting as they were strips but included more dialogue compared to other comics. Instead of a comic being accompanied by text, the text is accompanied by artwork.