When I first read Courigan I was very confused about how to read the panels correctly. It was not your typical symmetrical panels with the perfectly lined gutters. Not only did the panels not line up but it seemed to me that the content jumped around alot. This was not a comic I found to be a "quick read" by any means. However, once we introduced the idea of ragtime music to the comic it seemed to flow alot better. I found that the way ragtime music jumped around with its high and low pitched sequences was the same way I found my brain taking in the comics information and closures.
Is it possible that music can give a personality to a comic? I found that to be very true since the more I listened to the ragtime clips, the more I found the panels following to the beat of the music in my mind. It seemed to make the panels flow more like a film strip. It also gave it the quirky kind of music that you would assume an old time cartoon would have.
Is it possible that there may be a reason behind the random placement of comic panels? This thought did not occur to me until our group disscussions in class today. One could imagine the gutters of the strip to be the lines of a music scale and the random horizontal and vertical panels to represent musical notes. It takes a little imagination but I think the flow is there. Once I considered this idea it seemed to give alot more movement and noise to the busy streets and buldings of Chicago.
Is it possible that music can give a personality to a comic? I found that to be very true since the more I listened to the ragtime clips, the more I found the panels following to the beat of the music in my mind. It seemed to make the panels flow more like a film strip. It also gave it the quirky kind of music that you would assume an old time cartoon would have.
Is it possible that there may be a reason behind the random placement of comic panels? This thought did not occur to me until our group disscussions in class today. One could imagine the gutters of the strip to be the lines of a music scale and the random horizontal and vertical panels to represent musical notes. It takes a little imagination but I think the flow is there. Once I considered this idea it seemed to give alot more movement and noise to the busy streets and buldings of Chicago.
I thought it was an interesting idea to set Corrigan to ragtime music. I didn't hear it though. Corrigan was very slow moving and heavy to me and putting it up against ragtime just didn't sound like they matched up. It makes more sense now when you compared it to how the panels in Jimmy Corrigan didn't line up and made it feel like it jumped around.
ReplyDeleteI definitely see the ragtime music as a perfect fit for Corrigan. Although I found it a slow read I felt that if it was put to the ragtime music, it made the read, especially the multiple blank slides move quicker as well as smoother.
ReplyDeleteTo me, ragtime music sounds like a free association with instruments involved. Jimmy Corrigan felt like Chris Ware just sat down one day and just wrote(and drew) whatever came to the top of his head. I realize how ridiculous that sounds but when I hear the ragtime music and set it next to Jimmy Corrigan, that's what it reminds me of.
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