ST104 How Comics Create Horror

Staging the reveal

How horror comics control when you see the monster, with the page turn as the medium's jump scare.

About 120 minutes.

Reading for this lesson

Required The Saga of the Swamp Thing #21: "The Anatomy Lesson" Alan Moore (writer), Stephen Bissette (pencils), John Totleben (inks), Tatjana Wood (colours), John Costanza (letters) the whole issue

Study the page turns.

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Required House of Secrets #92 Len Wein (writer), Bernie Wrightson (artist) the whole story

The last page.

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Recommended Comics and Sequential Art Will Eisner the chapter on timing

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Optional Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere Hillary Chute the chapter on disaster or the body

For how comics show what is hard to look at.

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