Presentation Comics
Aug. 10th, 2008 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nemorathwald1. I'm good at delivering presentations.
2. I like making comics, except for the part where I have to make up a fictional dramatic narrative.
3. Presentations with hand-drawn explanatory slides instead of those powerpoint slides full of redundant words. YES. This feels like destiny.
Reading Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics struck me with the incredible explanatory power that comes along with combining words and pictures. Above all traits, it is a book of overwhelming lucidity. Words alone, or pictures without sequence, carry a lot of interpretive workload for teacher and learner. Films don't wait around for the learner's pace. In Understanding Comics, McCloud does not just describe why comics possesses vast communicative aptitude: he demonstrates it.
The religious propaganda tracts of my upbringing soured me on didactic comics literature. I now believe this was needlessly so. If it feels like squeezing blood from a stone to think of a story, what of it? I don't need to wait around for a story. I can teach something and make it fun. I love explaining things.
To start with, I'll draw a comic about the Penguicon Solar System for the "What Is Penguicon?" page. The twin suns of SF and Free/Open Source Software; the planets of music, webcomics, gaming, etc.
Second, I would like to make a couple of Lojban tutorial comics. For that purpose, it would be great to incorporate some kind of media player into a webpage, so that clicking a picture gives a quick sound file without leaving the page. I'll research that.
2. I like making comics, except for the part where I have to make up a fictional dramatic narrative.
3. Presentations with hand-drawn explanatory slides instead of those powerpoint slides full of redundant words. YES. This feels like destiny.
Reading Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics struck me with the incredible explanatory power that comes along with combining words and pictures. Above all traits, it is a book of overwhelming lucidity. Words alone, or pictures without sequence, carry a lot of interpretive workload for teacher and learner. Films don't wait around for the learner's pace. In Understanding Comics, McCloud does not just describe why comics possesses vast communicative aptitude: he demonstrates it.
The religious propaganda tracts of my upbringing soured me on didactic comics literature. I now believe this was needlessly so. If it feels like squeezing blood from a stone to think of a story, what of it? I don't need to wait around for a story. I can teach something and make it fun. I love explaining things.
To start with, I'll draw a comic about the Penguicon Solar System for the "What Is Penguicon?" page. The twin suns of SF and Free/Open Source Software; the planets of music, webcomics, gaming, etc.
Second, I would like to make a couple of Lojban tutorial comics. For that purpose, it would be great to incorporate some kind of media player into a webpage, so that clicking a picture gives a quick sound file without leaving the page. I'll research that.
