Graphic Narrative With Gutters

A visual or implied boundary and the contents within it that tell a piece of the story.

Graphic narrative with gutters.

Graphic narrative through its most basic composition in frames and gutters in which it is able to gesture at the pacing and rhythm of reading and looking through the various structures of each. The space between the panels as the reader moves from one panel to the next they predict and conclude what is happening. This thesis is about the significance of the gutter in graphic narrative. Empathy and historical fiction in comics explores fictionalized historical realities in graphic narratives and how we respond to them.

Graphic narrative through its most basic composition in frames and gutters in which it is able to gesture at the pacing and rhythm of reading and looking through the various structures of each individual page calls a reader s attention visually and spatially to the act process and duration of interpretation. Indeed as the excerpt below shows image 3 sometimes the gutters so essential to the comics construction of narrative disappear entirely. That this occurs in the moments at which the c i a s conspiratorial activities are depicted highlights the subversive nature of operation ajax s historical material. Kate polak s ethics in the gutter.

Monnin s 2010 graphic novel vocabulary the basics.