Graphic Narrative With Gutters

Monnin s 2010 graphic novel vocabulary the basics.

Graphic narrative with gutters.

Empathy and historical fiction in comics explores fictionalized historical realities in graphic narratives and how we respond to them. I will look at this empty space between the panels and how it works and relates to the narrative. Indeed as the excerpt below shows image 3 sometimes the gutters so essential to the comics construction of narrative disappear entirely. First i will delve into the surface of the physical appearance of the gutter its function as a frame and a passe partout and inevitably how this affects the way we look at the gutter through the image and sequential art.

It is speaking the silences of history those moments of hypocrisy that have been conveniently forgotten through a form that self consciously eradicates its gutters those. Graphic narrative through its most basic composition in frames and gutters in which it is able to gesture at the pacing and rhythm of reading and looking through the various structures of each individual page calls a reader s attention visually and spatially to the act process and duration of interpretation. Kate polak s ethics in the gutter. The space between the panels as the reader moves from one panel to the next they predict and conclude what is happening.

That this occurs in the moments at which the c i a s conspiratorial activities are depicted highlights the subversive nature of operation ajax s historical material.