Literature of Comics and the Graphic Narrative

I liked the drawing, that  A man was bowing, he seems like a very polite person. But actually, he is just bending his back to get his beer form bottle.  (Still working on translations+refining!) 그림으로는 유명해지지 못했지만 코믹으로 유명한 토펄드라는 사람의 그림은 인상적이다. 초반의 만화 형태라는데 최근 낙서들에 비해 전혀 뒤쳐지지 않는다. (특히 인사하는 것처럼 고개를 숙이고 있었지만 다음 컷에서 사실 그저 맥주를 담으려고 숙인 것인 걸 보여준다던지 하는 게 정적이고 흥미롭다!)

A Harlot's Progress It is interesting that the translation for the drawing can differ with the way where characters are pointing, or the body balance the character is leaning for. When I did not know what Harlot'meaningng, I thought the character is a mom who is sending her daughter to a boarding school. Because their dress code didn't seem poor, and the old man's face seems really kind to me. I was quite shocked when I knew he is actually not a really good person. And also I thought the stuff in the drawing could be the daughter's movings. So I was really sure about the idea before the class goes on and I get the true idea of what is going on with the drawings. It was hard to predict the drawings without any knowledge on it. I didn't know the man was actually a rapist, and one who's riding a horse is a clergyman. It's all because I don't know about their dress code and culture. I definitely did not know the man is looking for a job, because I re...

Une Semaine de Bonte://PIC What I have guessed with reading ‘ Une Semaine de Bonte ’ (This is a very personal opinion without any knowledge on these drawings and background information of the era.) A woman seems to enchanting on the rooster on an egg or maybe she is just surprised because she saw a dead human under stairs, or maybe! She pushed the man and about to run away, then she saw the rooster staring at her and was so surprised. So she is also about to fall down? She is surely dead, or in a deep sleep, coma? and the Rooster’s god is staring down at her. We don’t know what he is thinking but as a context, he is just happy to find a human killed by a rooster or here to punish her? Two rooster’s god(maybe just gods in forms of a rooster) is fighting each other about who is going to take over her soul(?) and the goddess is making decisions between them. The fighting becomes long enough but hasn’t ended, so even the goddess is bored and she is laying on a rock t...

The Arrival:// Link The Arrival has no words but drawings, and they are not even in the cut type of comics. What the book only has is a full page, or two pages a drawing, and  9 bits of drawing for a page. This was a very new reading material type to me. I usually do not read comics much, and some of the comics I read was in the form of Webcomics, which have a manga type cuts and few words.  Though I liked the book and it's silence mood a lot. It almost feels like I am watching a black and white old movie. Graphic of the novel was very well drawn and because every bit has fully described scenes, I could understand the story without showing any words.  The unique concepts that the book has was very special. Showing every small and usual detail of everyday life of the world on the drawings, they helped the reader to understand the whole world inside the book not only the main character and the story. It is shown right after the main character, t...