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12 Lonely Men: The Art of Andy J. Walker

Theodore Twombly, 2016 Giclée Print on 300gsm Cotton Rag 42.0 x 59.4cm, Edition of 20 “And… sometimes I feel like I have felt everything...
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12 Lonely Men

I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why. Like all art, the medium of cinema allows audiences to confront real issues by experiencing reality through someone else’s eyes, allowing us to empathise with these stories and characters. What they are experiencing on‐screen offers an outsiders perspective to similar situations in our own lives. Our emotional responses to these can feel real, and because of this we can...
conclusion

5. Conclusion to an Exegesis…

Schneider summarises that the everyday is present in comics, not only in panels, but also in the form of emotional responses in our reading experience...
iconography

4. Iconography, Symbols & Colour

Comics are a medium with a largely semiotic design. David Crow, building from the theories of Saussure and Pierce, describes semiotics as the relationship between...
Comic Structure

3. Comic Structure

According to Will Eisner, timing is an essential structural element to comics, the measurement of which has an enormous psychological impact (1), enabling us to...
Authorship & Autobiographical Influence

2. Authorship & Autobiographical Influence

As stated, the ability to evoke an emotional response or connection is linked in part to the empathy that we as a reader feel towards...
introduction to an exegesis

1. Introduction to an Academic Exegesis…

Forming a rounded definition of a comic is a difficult task. The medium contains a rich history that grows and develops into new forms with...
New Picture

Comics…

Comics have been prevalent in my life since I was about 7 years old. Growing up, my father had a decent collection of Charles...

12 Lonely Men

I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why. Like all art, the medium of cinema allows audiences to confront real issues by experiencing...
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