EXERCISE 3: Discovery   "A work on the structure of a story, the composition of a page made of nine identical panels (“waffle”) with a central transitional panel, the composition and the scope of the images" "The page, made of nine identical panels, will tell an action, an event, an ordinary or extraordinary fact; it will show a situation, an atmosphere, an investigation, or a thought, that will lead the character to discover, to reveal something." "The story is complete with a beginning, a middle, and an ending: the first part of the page (4 panels) will set the situation, the atmosphere, the introduction of a character, shown or suggested, looking for something. the central panel (the fifth one) is a transitional panel that will change the action, bring it forward, hasten it to the discovery that will be done later in the exercise (panels 6 to 9). This discovery will happen gradually or abruptly in the last or last-but-one panel" "This discovery can be material (an object, a person, a body), or immaterial (understanding something, the solution of a riddle, the answer of a question, the revelation of a presentiment, the conclusion of a thought). This can be liked to a narrative or atmosphere genre, to an intellectual, philosophical or autobiographical thought, linked to a memory" "The images will show the objects, parts of the characters or entire chars, a bit of background. The work of the composition and the scope of the image is essential. The exercise may contain some texts (dialogue, monologue, narrative objective from a person outside of the story or subjective from the main char of the story) or not. The narration can be simple or complex (parallel narration between the text and the image), it must be credible and subtle" "The graphical style can be realistic, humoristic, graphical or semi-realistic. The narrative genre can be realistic, daily, historical, poetic, polar, fantastic, fantasy or sci-fi" "Work in black and white, or B&W + one colour" ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

Commentaires personnels So this is my work for the third exercise. I’m personally rather satisfied but that was possible to do better. There are several little errors everywhere in this comic, especially on the cars and the characters, and the hand at the third panel. This comic is in French, but I think there’s no need to translate it into English. You just have to know that the speaker in the radio station says there was a car accident in the ring road of Brussels which has caused the giant traffic jam inside the city, and the drivers in that jam have to be very patient, because we estimate that jam will last about five hours! Video games fans that are watching the comic carefully will notice a little something that, perhaps, will make them smile =)