Graphic Cannon

The Graphic Cannon was a new twist on reading old stories. While it used the same words, the pictures and illustrations that were paired up with the words either further gave meaning to them, or offered a new way to read and understand the story or poem.

A Modest Proposal is a disturbing story by itself without illustrations. Proposing to eat well nursed kids usually puts an uneasy, and unwanted, picture in someone’s head. The pictures that go with the text though do a good job showing how modest of a proposal it really is. I enjoy how the colors used are not what real life looks, but uses a sepia color tone which creates an almost dystopian feeling to the eyes. .The speaker is given a truly sinister look with the way his eyes are drawn.

The Hill was one of my favorite graphic novels of the ones we read because I loved the illustrations that went with the words. It gave a good visual aspect to Faulkner’s words. My favorite part of it was the words “in this way he worked out the devastating unimportance of his destiny.” Each word is like a caption under a comic style drawings, each picture showed the man laboring with a hollow look in his eyes. By doing this, you can really see the unimportance that the man feels. Drawings like these give an aspect or angle of the text one would not normally receive if it were just the words being read.

Alice in Wonderland has such interesting settings and characters that it is almost essential to have some sort of visual aid to pair with the words. It truly paints how fantastical the world is, sometimes beautiful, creepy, or scary. The rough cursive made it hard to read but it was none the less good.