Graphic Narrative With Gutters

The space between the panels as the reader moves from one panel to the next they predict and conclude what is happening.

Graphic narrative with gutters.

Kate polak s ethics in the gutter. Monnin s 2010 graphic novel vocabulary the basics. A visual or implied boundary and the contents within it that tell a piece of the story. Indeed as the excerpt below shows image 3 sometimes the gutters so essential to the comics construction of narrative disappear entirely.

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. This thesis is about the significance of the gutter in graphic narrative. It is speaking the silences of history those moments of hypocrisy that have been conveniently forgotten through a form that self consciously eradicates its gutters those. First i will delve into the surface of the physical appearance of the gutter its function as a frame and a passe partout and inevitably how this affects the way we look at the gutter through the image and sequential art.

Empathy and historical fiction in comics explores fictionalized historical realities in graphic narratives and how we respond to them.