Matt Madden's '99 Ways to tell a story: Exercises in styles'
Craig Gassen
Source: http://www.exercisesinstyle.com/guests/
Source: http://www.exercisesinstyle.com/guests/
After reading more comics form Matt Madden’s website, I like the one created by Craig Gassen most.
The first reason is because it did not change too much thing form the original comic but it still turn the whole story upside down. In this comic, the artist simply just change the image and added two thinking cloud in the first two frame and the story become completely different compare to the original one.
The second reason is the storyline of the comic. When compare to the original one which is a very lightweight everyday story, this story have more unpredictability in it and that fascinates me. By adding two introduction thinking bubble to the character, the story opens up to a lot of interpretation. The main character can be a serial killers waiting to murder the female (he is creating his alibi), he can be a crazy scientist that try to do different evil human experiment (the organs in the fridge) or he can be a secret agent that have to go on a mission and cannot wait to go back to his lover who is waiting for him. It did not shows everything in the storyline so that the reader can have their own interpretation to the story and bring imagination to the reader by not showing everything and they can decide how the story goes afterward.
The last reason is the image of the comic, it created a mysterious feeling by not showing any face and just the hands of the main character and the organs in the fridge. In this way, it instantly shows a film-noir feel which is good compare to some others work have to do so much change and require reader to have a lot of thinking to get the idea of the comic.
The first reason is because it did not change too much thing form the original comic but it still turn the whole story upside down. In this comic, the artist simply just change the image and added two thinking cloud in the first two frame and the story become completely different compare to the original one.
The second reason is the storyline of the comic. When compare to the original one which is a very lightweight everyday story, this story have more unpredictability in it and that fascinates me. By adding two introduction thinking bubble to the character, the story opens up to a lot of interpretation. The main character can be a serial killers waiting to murder the female (he is creating his alibi), he can be a crazy scientist that try to do different evil human experiment (the organs in the fridge) or he can be a secret agent that have to go on a mission and cannot wait to go back to his lover who is waiting for him. It did not shows everything in the storyline so that the reader can have their own interpretation to the story and bring imagination to the reader by not showing everything and they can decide how the story goes afterward.
The last reason is the image of the comic, it created a mysterious feeling by not showing any face and just the hands of the main character and the organs in the fridge. In this way, it instantly shows a film-noir feel which is good compare to some others work have to do so much change and require reader to have a lot of thinking to get the idea of the comic.
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