ENGB38H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Chris Ware, Curiosity, Zoetrope
Document Summary
Loneliness and the birth of the modern. Jimmy is profoundly isolated and alone in the world. Importance of design in crafting narrative and architecture. Focus on chris ware as a designer. How design shapes the way a story can be told (zoetrope) Chris ware was inspired by spiegelman - spiegelman saw ware"s works and invited him to contribute to his magazine raw. One of ware"s contributions was called thrilling adventure stories / i guess ; the narrative is one voice only, but is placed into a superhero comic setting (raw 2. 3) Comics can tell a complex story, but the assumption is that comics are only a superhero story. Sadness was not the dominant tone of comics at the time. Asks the question of how a comic can tell the sad story. Jimmy corrigan has a scene where superman commits suicide. Calls back to the famous dc issue where superman was killed off.
