Friday, February 17, 2017

Week 5) Body talk : Eisnor & Thompson

As the description said, Eisnor and Thompson had more clarity and emotional content compared to a lot of the previous works. The action were the main resources to tell who is the character and the story itself. However on the Graphic novel area, the authors started to consider the importance of the emotions and the mood. 

As going through one of the Eisnor's work, the Spirit,  I noticed that not only he kept the style of the old storytelling, focusing on the character's motivation and the result, but also it was successful to see the clear characters' faces and their emotions. The surprising part was he did not make big changes from the old style. 


Look at their faces and how clearly we could see it. One is begging and one is questioning and not really concern about what the left said. With the text the drawings were wonderfully worked. Also Eisnor liked to show overacted poses, which I respected and amazed by the most because the each drawings were just like one frame of the animation with good poses. 


Craig Thompson's works so amazing. This is the early comic/ graphic novel similar to recent form of it. Like Eisnor, it is so much clear with the pose and the facial expression. But I personally believe he added more on this.  Unlike previous lined up and grouped together panels Thompson started to break up the things here. He knew that how to use the empty space, unlined box, and where he should emphasize with more drawings. I did not expect i would see someone using the empty space in this period. Also where I liked about was that with just bit more of the drawing of the situation, he could bring up the mood of the every shots too.