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October 26, 2005
Harvey Pekar
I was intrigued by today's class. It was amazing to see the difference in interpretation from my group-the girls looking at the words and creating pictures-from the other group-the girls analyzing the pictures and generating a words to accompany it. In the word-analyzing group, I was able to form a picture of what each sentence meant and how to depict this sentence or word on paper. Something I never thought about was that, while my group was completing our project, many ideas to represent words or phrases were thrown out on the table. Each person possessed a certain scene in their head of Pekar loving his name, for example. We learned, through this activity, to compromise our ideas and form pictures that were uniquely ours.
Personally, I was completely surprised by the actual pictures of the comic, and I was more than impressed by the way the other group formulated a storyline that truly adhered to the pictures. It was so believable! There were such small differences in each panel, and it seems that the other group dissected each picture.
This activity truly showed the ambiguity between words and pictures. There is a certain element of unknown for each.
Great job to both groups! -Christina
Posted by lcisgancarz at October 26, 2005 03:55 PM
Comments
Nice blog Christina!! Oddly enough, Christina (for some reason or another, I have no clue how or why), predicted that the pictures of the Harvey Pekar comic would all be the same with small, but distinct differences. But, we shot down that idea saying, "That's the silliest thing we've ever heard Christina, why would the illustrator do that??" But she was right and I definetely understand the illustrator's purpose in doing so!! Great job everyone!
Posted by: Brenna at October 26, 2005 11:44 PM
I was totally shocked too by the actual pictures for the comic. I was not expecting it to be a word specific comic strip because I thought that in order to help the reader/viewer understand the somewhat complicated story, the artist would definitely draw supplemental illustrations to accompany the words. I know it seemed like the other group, the group that had to come up with a story, had more opportunity to be creative with the project, but imagine if the comic had been picture specific. For example some comics only contain sighs, and you must rely on the pictures for the meaning. Had that been the case, our group would have had much more opportunity to create any sort of story we wanted to.
Posted by: Brenna S. at October 27, 2005 09:58 PM
Me as well!! I was not expecting the real comic to be just one single man and be word specific either. I was so confused when they showed us the real comic. I agree with Brenna S. that if our group were to have a comic with just sighs and emotion noises or whatnot, we would have had a harder time, but yet a more creative time. However, our comic that we did create was so different and it was our perpective on it. I had fun and I thought that was an interesting assignment, it's on the top of my list. (by the way....way to go on the drawings! you did a great job!!! :) )
Posted by: Rachel at October 28, 2005 02:21 PM
I was really surprised as well when I saw the real pictures for the Harvey Pekar comic (but I still liked our pictures and our Harvey better!). But yea I thought the assignment was so much fun and our group was really great, I loved working with all of you girls you made it so much fun!
Posted by: Katie at October 28, 2005 04:18 PM
Good job on drawing! You really put effort into expressing each one of our perspectives in the comic drawings.
I was too "crushed" to see a single man (uglier than our Harvey) sitting. I thought that our comic was full of interesting and better symbols and signs to look at. It was pleasure to work with you girls.
Posted by: zaya at October 30, 2005 07:40 PM