Today we talked about some of the interesting composition and panel formatting used in 'Blankets' and during the discussion I couldn't help but think of one of my favorite cartoons, "Krazy Kat" by George Herriman.
It's not exactly like art in 'Blankets' but the idea of a single picture spilling out into different panels as well as panels being placed over a scene both are shown in Herriman's work from the early 20th century. It's cool to see original and beautiful art like in Blankets but what's cooler is that it has its roots in something almost 100 years old.
It's not exactly like art in 'Blankets' but the idea of a single picture spilling out into different panels as well as panels being placed over a scene both are shown in Herriman's work from the early 20th century. It's cool to see original and beautiful art like in Blankets but what's cooler is that it has its roots in something almost 100 years old.
note how the road on the bottom of the page connects behind the middle panel. Krazy (the cat) and Ignatz (the mouse) are in two places at once. Thompson does something like this on pg. 333 at the party. Craig and Raina are in the crowd twice, but the gutters placed around them separate them from the collage of teenagers.
