Graphic Narrative With Gutters

Indeed as the excerpt below shows image 3 sometimes the gutters so essential to the comics construction of narrative disappear entirely.

Graphic narrative with gutters.

I will look at this empty space between the panels and how it works and relates to the narrative. This thesis is about the significance of the gutter in graphic narrative. 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.

A visual or implied boundary and the contents within it that tell a piece of the story. 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. 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. The space between the panels as the reader moves from one panel to the next they predict and conclude what is happening.

Monnin s 2010 graphic novel vocabulary the basics.