| 2/12 | Sketch 5: Triptych | ||
| 5 | 2/13 | Spinning– Prologue and chapters 1-3 (1-114) | |
| 2/15 | Spinning — chapters 4-5 (115-82) | Literacy narrative comic storyboard (in class) |
I’m looking forward to seeing your Triptychs over the weekend — main thing I’m looking for is a comic with a beginning, middle, and end and/or with a clear pattern setup and then a twist.
On Tuesday, we’ll focus on the beginning of Spinning, starting off that discussion by comparing Walden’s graphic narrative to David Small and to Allie Brosh. Tillie Walden won the very prestigious Eisner Award for Spinning when it was published in 2018, when she was 22 years old. Spinning, which again was published when she was 22 years old, was Walden’s fourth graphic narrative book. In the five years since Spinning was published she has published eight more books (to be totally fair, two of those are forthcoming later this year). You can read all of her fifth book, On a Sunbeam online here — it’s worth at least glancing through some of those pages to get a sense of where her style has gone since Spinning.
We’ll start with comparing how Walden establishes character and setting compared to Small and how her tone /visual style is similar and different to Small’s. How does Walden use the page, panels, and gutters in comparison to Small? Note that there is one small moment in Spinning where Walden shows herself holding a copy of Stitches, so she has signaled for us that Small’s text is an influence for her — how has it influenced her as a writer?
Before class on Wednesday, please publish to your site images of your storyboard. They can be photographs of drawings if your work is analog. Just make sure they are legible. If you have a hardcopy of your work, bring that in with you to class too. We’ll spend a chunk of class in small groups sharing your storyboards and giving each other feedback. We’ll hopefully spend a bit of time discussing chapters 4-5 of Spinning too.
