Week 2

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

According to Baetens (2001), “Gaudreaults proposes to call the narrative instance of a film the ‘image-narrator’ or ‘great image-maker’, and to analyze the specific narrative situation of movies as the hierarchal combination of several types of narration or, as he calls it, ‘monstration’.” (pp.148)
Graphiation is graphic and narrative enunciation of the comics, and ‘graphiateur’ is the agent responsible for it. Therefore, ‘graphiation’ is a person who creates ‘graphiation’.

Compare the relationship between images and words differ in Hergé (1933) and Spiegelman’s (2004) works.

I don’t really know about comics before this paper. Actually, I like film or cartoon more than comics. However, through this paper, I have a new understanding to comics.
As Baetens (2001) said Philippe Marion (1993) analysis published the elements of comics. “Those elements belong to three different domains: that of the images, that of the captions, and that of the marks which are neither directly part of the image nor part of the captions, such as for instance the form of the balloons or that of the panel frames.” (pp. 145) Therefore, in a comic, the relationship between images and words can take a large impact to comic. Different comics have different relationships between images and words. This is a visual theme to describe the story.
In my opinion, the relationship between images and words in Herge (1933) is more traditional. The images and panel frames are very simple and clean. However, the relationship between images and words in Spiegelman (2004) is more tangly and modern. I think that different between these two prove the progress of modern comics.

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