I get Eisner's point about gestures helping communicate, though I think his style goes a bit too far -- and make the work seem too "cartoony" for my taste. I guess the trick is to find a balance.
I did graphic memoir work for the first time a couple of years ago. I found it interesting that, although I was a rank amateur (and still am), I instinctively knew ways to express emotions in people and general feeling in a scene. I mean, not at the level of a pro, of course, but the knowledge was there. I wondered how much of that was what I had soaked up from comics growing up (I'm 63), and how much was just a function of being human.
I get Eisner's point about gestures helping communicate, though I think his style goes a bit too far -- and make the work seem too "cartoony" for my taste. I guess the trick is to find a balance.
I did graphic memoir work for the first time a couple of years ago. I found it interesting that, although I was a rank amateur (and still am), I instinctively knew ways to express emotions in people and general feeling in a scene. I mean, not at the level of a pro, of course, but the knowledge was there. I wondered how much of that was what I had soaked up from comics growing up (I'm 63), and how much was just a function of being human.