Drawing Words & Writing Pictures: Week 4 Homework

Yikes!  I’ve been busy, busy and then out of town for first SPX, then a vacation, and I’ve fallen way behind on my Drawing Words and Writing Pictures project.  I’m going to try to catch up this week, though.  So here goes…

Week four’s homework was to thumbnail a two-page version of “Jack and Jill” using all seven of the panel-to-panel transition types listed in the book–the six Scott McCloud transitions, plus their new “symbolic” transition type.

Mainly in order to facilitate the “scene-to-scene” transition type, I’ve added a parallel story going on here that I’ve pretty much stolen whole hog from Toy Story: the waves of water at the bottom of the well believe that the people who come to the well to get water are gods, and the waves hope that they will be “rewarded” by being selected and hauled up to the surface in a bucket.  It worked nicely as well since I was able to parallel the boastful wave who ultimately isn’t rewarded with the boastful Jack who ultimately fails to fetch the pail of water.  I also played a bit on the anachronistic term “crown” in the original rhyme by using a visual of a literal broken crown to represent Jack’s failure and to take care of the symbolic transition that the assignment calls for.

Now that I look at these, I think I should have reversed tiers two and three on page two, so that Jack falls first, then we see what’s going on from the wave’s view.  Even though each tier shows action that’s occuring pretty much simultaneously, it seems to make more sense from a cause and effect consideration to have them flipped.

Anyway, it’s a pretty silly story, but hopefully I’ve successfully gotten one each of the required transtition types.  Here’s where they are:

• A) subject to subject
• B) aspect to aspect
• C) scene to scene
• D) action to action
• E) non-sequitur
• F) moment to moment
• G) Symbolic