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.
Reading for this lesson
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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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The last page.
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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.