Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Matt Goldberg Blog Post 5

Peanuts


The first thing that I noticed about this comic strip is that only one
character is used for the whole comic, and this character is Snoopy. In the
first frame Snoopy is sitting down and typing a letter to which it appears a
lover of his. Charles Shultz creates this appearance by writing in the
frames what Snoopy is writing and or thinking in his head. Time is created
by in each panel the letter is continued to be written within the frames.
Facial expressions on Snoopy’s face portray his emotion, in the last panel
Snoopy has a huge smile on his face telling the reader that he is very fond
of this person whom he is writing to and can not wait until Sunday when he
gets to be with this special person. More emotion is also showed by all the
hearts and xoxoxo’s in comic, showing his love for the person. Motion is
also showed in the comic, Charles Shultz successfully shows motion by the
different position, which Snoopy sits in and moves from panel to panel. I
thought that putting all the hearts and xoxoxo really helped to bring out
the emotion of the comic, without those you could think he is just writing
to a family member or close friend.

2 comments:

  1. You picked a very good comic to talk about, it had a lot of symbols, words, motion, and time lapsing, that it was cool to read. You made a good point about Snoopy's facial features too, which I'm glad you didn't forget about! It definitely backs up what the thought bubbles say, and what he is typing.
    Loved it!

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  2. Very good. You were able to grasp the concepts of time, motion, and emotion. Considereing the comic, I don't think you could improve on anything. Maybe elaborate on the time more, it would take more than just a few seconds to type that letter as compared to how quickly we read the comic.

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