week 2 late post

Week 2: what does Baetons(2001) mean by ‘monstration’, ‘graphiation’,and ‘graphiateur’?

As my point of view, the graphic is narrative utterance. It’s going to give readers a first rough copy which makes them discover something of the initial narrative drawing. Sometime even it gives reader different impression compare with ending it doesn’t matter because it might be an unfinished drawing.

All drawing is made of three features what are lines, contours and color that the narrative is the agent who is responsible for it. Marion does not see garphiation as a different and parallel type of narration, but as a subordinate part of it.

To analysis the specific narrative situation of movies as the hierarchical combination of several types of narration or, that Marion calls it as “monstration”.

From the article, garhiation is more about self is like narration. It obviously shows self identity and thoughts. By proposing to add to the point, it mentions that monstration is going to be more detail and far from having the same figurative transparency in comics.

Therefore, ‘garphiation’ is related to the character in the drawing by adding personality of artist.

References  
Baetons, J. (2001). Revealing Traces: a new theory of graphic enunciation. In Varnum,R.& Gibbons, C. (Eds), The Language of Comics: world and image (pp/ 145-155), Jackson: U Press of Mississippi.