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“The Awkward Moment When” was inspired by the re-occurring popular trending topic on twitter. Thousands of twitter users will tweet about an awkward moment they’ve experienced followed by the hash tag #ThatAwkwardMomentWhen… I decided to base my comic on this because it is very relatable. That being said, making my comic relatable will keep readers interested and allow them to see themselves as the character. I tried to keep the design very simple as well. As Scott Mccloud said, people respond much better to a carton than the realistic image (Mccloud). I kept certain features such as eyes, eyebrows and body shapes, that way I am focusing much more on specific details. The eyes and eyesbrows to deliever emotion and body shapes to exaggerate certain stereotypes, in this case a “sexy woman”. Hopefully, by doing this I was able to amplify the meaning in a way a realistic version can’t (Mccloud).

I took advantage of the gutter towards the end of my comic. In two panels I simply provided the image of a stoplight, in hopes the reader will automatically assume the car is approaching it. Although, the rest of the comic requires little closure as a majority of the panels are panel-to-panel. The only other different type of panel I used was between seeing the woman in the distance to the guy in red yelling at her, which is action-to-action.

I played a lot with the sizes of the frames in order to distinguish the time spans for each. The first three panel-to-panel require little close, but the idea of stretching it is to show the slowness of time that the guy in red is experiencing will riding passenger. I also lengthened the sixth panel to also ensure that they have been in the car for a while and since the guy in red is drooping out the window, it will evoke his “boredness”.

Another factor I focused on was movement. I used the idea of motion line with the background to ensure the movement of the car and that it wasn’t just parked on the road or sitting still, but it was in fact moving (Mccloud). Although I did not include lines, I sort of meshed the idea of panel-to-panel and motion line in one single panel to show the reclining of the guy in the red. Of course, we know he is moving down and that there are not three bodies in one.

The words and picture combination I used was additive. I believe if you were to take off the words, it would not have as strong of an impact as it would be with the words. And of course, if the images were removed, the dialogue would probably make the reader confused.

Overall my intention was to keep in simple and down to earth, hopefully having a few readers think, “This has so happened to me..” I read over and understood several of Scott Mccloud’s concepts and successfully incorporated it with my comic. Even without extremely detailed artistic pictures, I was still able to convey my message across with very simple characters.

Bibliography: McCloud, Scott. //Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art//. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993. Print.