Week Fourteen: The Future of Comics
With the last blog post of the semester and talking about the future of comics, I choose to read "Stand Still, Stay Silent" - a webcomic Drawn to the premise from the get-go, I love the setting of a post apocalyptic story of a boy living the Icelandic countries of Iceland, Sweden, ect. With a disease running rampage across the country and the goverment scrambling to find the source of it, I was hooked with the impending danger while being drawn to the heart of the story about friendship ad exploration. I absolutely enjoyed the style of the comic through and through. It was a pleasant blending of western and Asian styles of drawing to illustrate the book. Sepia tones were used to shade and add an atmospheric perspective to the panels which helped further place me into the setting. Another aspect of the presentation I really enjoyed was the variation of the panels! No two pages were alike and you could tell the artist had a lot of fun composing these shots and did