Our imagination takes the two images that boarder the gutter and transforms then into a single idea.
Comics gutter activity two panels mysterious.
Gutter what happens between the sixth and seventh panel of figure 2 1 4a.
Comic as an adjective also has the meaning of funny or as pertaining to comedians which can cause confusion and is usually avoided in most.
The invisible messenger if one were to look at a comic they would see empty space between the panels that contain the illustrations and dialogue of the text.
Comics designed by traci gardner.
As comic book scholar scott mccloud explains the gutter is used to take two separate images and transform them into a single idea mccloud 1993 p.
This is an obvious observation that has not so obvious implications.
In comics the reader actively has to fill in the gap and make assumptions about what happens between frames or panels.
In their very basic form comics consist of two structural parts the panels and the gutter.
Open panels aka borderless panels panels where one or more or even all of the sides of the comic panel are open to show dramatic effect.
If visual iconography is the vocabulary of comics closure is its grammar.
Notice how the gutter in comics is similar to the pivot between two juxtaposed images in haiku.
To follow the story readers logically connect panels together by inferring unseen actions through a process called clo sure.
In between the panels human imagination takes two unconnected images and mentally constructs transforms them into a single idea turns them into a continuous reality.
Aka panel frame the edge or outline of the comic page shaded red in this example.
Gutters can also be used to split a panel with just one background to imply the passage of time between both panels as demonstrated here by craig thompson and good bye chunky rice.
Okay now some comics scholars believe that the power of comics is all contained within the gutter as it s what makes comics interactive.
Figure 2 1 4b places the reader at a distance from the subjects making the reader feel like he or she is looking in or eavesdropping.
According to scott mccloud the gutter is a significant part of the story telling.
In comics most movements in time and space are hidden in the gutters between panels.
Comics is used as a non count noun and thus is used with the singular form of a verb in the way the words politics or economics are to refer to the medium so that one refers to the comics industry rather than the comics industry.
This blank space creates a transition from one moment to the next within a story.
In his lit erary study of comics douglas wolk 2007 argues that one of the panel s most important.
The gutter is essential.
In the comic world this space is known as the gutter.
