ST104 How Comics Create Horror
The page as a picture
Layout, tiers, grids and their breaking; Groensteen's idea that a page means all at once.
Reading for this lesson
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Required Swamp Thing #1: "Dark Genesis" Len Wein (writer), Bernie Wrightson (artist) the whole issue
For its layouts.
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Recommended The System of Comics Thierry Groensteen, translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen the introduction and the chapter on the page
Difficult; read for the argument, not every term.