Two Questions

I am finding it quite hard to start talking about this graphic essay, for some reason or another. Maybe because these types of writing are so new to me or maybe because I don’t completely understand exactly what I read. I am not sure. Again I found this essay a quite interesting one in fact. The entire idea of using pictures and words together to form a cohesive piece of informational writing is really beginning to interest me as I read more examples. You can add a lot of humor and different points of view through essays like this all by simply adding a picture and a speaking bubble. That was probably the best part to this essay, entitled Two Questions.

Many of the pictures in this essay were not very well drawn but they still had a very strong prevalence to the entire essay. It seems like there was always the main story highlighted in each section by a box, which contained the author’s views and narrative. Then surrounding the main idea and interconnected with the pictures was extra tidbits of information, including describing words, opinions, and simple connotations. This is a different form of writing and then a very different form of reading an essay for me and many of the other students in my class.

Overall, I thought that this essay was very weirdly written. Again it is probably because I am not used to reading graphic essays and paying attention to their tone. The tone seems to be less formal so that it can be referred to many different types of people. The style of the essay is much less organized and even less formally written. The sentences were not always complete and the ideas from the author seemed to be jumping around from one part of the picture to another. There were words that are considered severe slang words but there actually fit the perspective of the essay. This graphic essay was an insight to another type of essay writing.

I wonder what the possibilities are for producing graphic essays because the only two that I have read included information on the idea itself. They were both simply graphic essays that discussed information regarding graphic essays. Are there limits for this type of essay? How do you start in creating a graphic essay when you have never been expected to write one in the past? How do you incorporate different ideas and visual aspects into a graphic essay without being able to have done it already in the past? These are just a few of the many questions that I have regarding graphic essays. If I have to write one in a couple of weeks I am guessing that I will find myself confused and stressed out. I should start now on learning more about them.