Hanexi Pérez
Professor Cynthia Pittmann
ENGL 3103-138
May 22, 2018

Graphic Fiction Questions

Elements of Fiction:

Does the graphic fiction feature a central character or set of characters? How does this character or set of characters provide a focal lens for the story?

·         The graphic fiction it does feature a central character or set characters converting them into the focal point of the story. All the panels presented in the graphic fiction are based or directly related to the central character or set of character, this is one of the literary elements that the fiction shares with the graphic fiction. 

Visual Elements:
How do the visual elements of the graphic work together to create the story’s meaning? What are the most important graphic elements being used by the artist to convey the story? 

·         The visual elements of the graphic operate simultaneously to produce the meaning of the story giving to it a structure and organization that allows the reader to comprehend and follow the sequence of the graphic fiction. They are so useful to the understanding and convey key aspects of the story’s meaning. Each graphic element has a worthy purpose but there are some elements that are indispensable to the graphic fiction. The panels and the dialogue balloons are the most important graphic elements because there are the ones which illustrated the image and contains the dialogue between each character. Another important element is the gutter, which divides the scenes and give a sequence to the graphic fiction. 

Narrative and Graphic Jumps:
How does the graphic fiction rely on the reader’s ability to provide narrative information that is not presented by words or images on the page? Does the work contain few or many narrative and visual gaps?  

·         The graphic fiction can trust on the reader’s ability to provide narrative information that is not presented on the page because it has a sequence of panels and scenes that gives to the reader the opportunity to infer the omitted information. Like is presented on the book, if one panel illustrated an person standing at the bottom of a mountain and the next panels shows that person standing at the top of the mountain we can infer that the character climbed up the mountain. The quantity of narrative and visual gaps that a graphic fiction could have it depends of the time that the story requires. Because if is a story that occurs in one hour it should have only a few gaps but if is a story that occurs in one day could have many gaps. 

Graphic Style:
How would you describe the style of the graphic work? What seems to be the artist’s signature style?

·         I would describe the style of the graphic work by focusing myself on how realistic and the complexity of the illustrations. The lines and the techniques used in the graphic work also helps me to describe the style of the work.  The artist’s signature style is often to be the colors and the type of drawing of the artist, the intensity and the detailed are distinguishable for each artist. 

How does the style match the story being told? Is the style a good match for the themes and concepts being conveyed by the narrative?  

·         The style is directly related to the story being told, it is the one which gives to the story his own design and shape. The style will infer with the interpretation that the reader could have of the story. And it is obviously associated with the themes and concepts being conveyed by the narrative since the style will insinuate and suggest the concepts presented in the story. For example, a dark and obscure style will make the reader interpret the story as a gloomy or tenebrous one. 

Work Cited

Elements of Graphic Fiction. Literature for Composition: An Introduction to Literature. Ed. Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, and William E. Cain. 10th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2014. 522-529