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October 18, 2005
Comics: Jumpstart
http://www.comics.com/comics/jumpstart/archive/jumpstart-20051017.html
JUMPSTART is a multi-panel comic by Robb Armstrong. To me, the artist seems to use two out of three levels of visual data: representation and symbolism. In the first panel a girl is holding a paper with that seems to represent a currency of wherever they are from. They marks on their faces distinguish the children in the panel as being satisfied and surprised. There is a curled line near the boy’s head that shows how taken back he is to see the “ten bucks” in the girl’s hands.
In the next panel the viewer will understand from the image that the boy is upset and angry. I see that the boy is screaming because the sharp and straight lines coming out of his mouth suggest that he is screaming. Also the shades in the background implies that specific moment I which he is screaming. This applies to Gestalt’s theories because the dots form lines (similarity) and those lines flow outward in the same direction (common fate).
In the third panel the artist doesn’t draw frames around the panel but still I see the panel to be in a closure. Gestalt’s continuance theory applies in this panel because I can imagine the boy’s lower body and the boy seems to be walking away from the girl and attempting to “protest”.
In the last panel, there is a father sitting on the couch and holding a newspaper. The “angry” boy’s head and shoulders are shown and put in the lower corner of the panel. The position they were draw in makes the viewer to feel what is in the atmosphere. The father’s brow is drawn to be only one short line over his eyes, which represents he is being distracted from his newspaper readings.
The panels relate to each other as scene to scene because the backgrounds keep changing and there is not single panel with the same background and angel. This comic strip is an example of word specific because the words deliver the same meaning to the viewer without the images.
Posted by lcisbold at October 18, 2005 11:35 AM