Part 1 - Snakes Ladders & Closure: The Mechanics of Comics Art
Channel: Salgood Sam
Date: 2018-06-01

Part 1 - Snakes Ladders & Closure: The Mechanics of Comics Art

This is one part of a four part series on the mechanics of comics art, called ‘Snakes Ladders & Closure: The Mechanics of Comics Art’. It was first given at FBDM 2018 in Montreal, and I recorded that for my Patreon patrons but there were some issues with the slides so I decided to redo it at home. A full uncut version can be found on my Patreon. But for the public feeds i've broken it up into more bite sized parts.

In this series I reference work done by Scott McCloud, Jessica Abel, and Matt Madden. You can find their books at the following links.

Scott McCloud’s ‘Understanding Comics’
http://www.scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/index.html
Scott McCloud’s ‘Making Comics’
http://www.scottmccloud.com/2-print/3-mc/index.html

Jessica Abel and Matt Madden’s ‘Drawing with words & writing with pictures’
http://dw-wp.com

I also reference the work of Neil Cohn, Ph.D. and his studies of how people read comics pages. His work is fascinating, you should really look into it! I only scratched the serface of it in passing here. 
http://www.visuallanguagelab.com/papers.html
http://www.visuallanguagelab.com/research.html
http://www.visuallanguagelab.com/vitae.html

You can read posts on these topics on my own comics course site here
http://makingcomics.spiltink.org/

And you can sign up for my classes in Montreal here at Syn Studio.
https://synstudio.ca

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https://www.patreon.com/salgood/

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http://www.salgoodsam.com

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