EXERCISE 5: The event Main synopsis Two people are meeting in frequented place. They know each other. They're concisely talking about an event that will take place in the following days. Two days later, we are in the event.   Some constraints The first page is an introduction of the story. The action takes place in the persent time. The place must be defined. This is a public place.   Further information You are free to use the comic style of your choice, but it must suits the designed story. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

Personal comments The last comic exercice of this year deals with the world of the alter-globalisation, more precisely the story of a young activist who's motivated to participate on a demonstration two days later. The comic is made of three pages. The style is semi-realistic/humorous, with simple outlines to make this page an ideal work for CGing. I have no clear opinion on the quality of the story, but I hope you'll have a little fun to read it. Even a little tiny fun...   Page 1 The first page is rather laborious to read because there's a lot of text that's setting the situation, the characters and their personality, and communication on some real recent facts... I haven't exactly exerted myself on the quality of the drawing style, mainly because I didn't want to spend too much time on inking this page, but the characters could be better drawn. I really wanted to make something simple but you'll discover soon that I haven't kept my promise on the next two pages...   Page 2 An antiglobalization demonstration is always lively, this is why I wanted to pull out all the stops so as to retranscribe this excitement. The drawing of the characters are better than the first page. The first panel contains enough chars in action that we can dwell on a moment on it, just to see who does what...but don't find Waldo, I haven't drawn him ^_~ The big bold words all around the comic are the lyrics of an Italian song named "Bella Ciao": you can listen to an extract of it by downloading this zip file : http://membres.lycos.fr/amisay/Misc/bellaciao.zip I've heard this song by watching a documentary on an antiglobalization demonstration that took place in Genoa in 2002.   The small details in the panels: (hghlight with the cursor to read the solutions) in the flag, at the left side of the page-->the eagle killing the snake is the emblem of Mexico, but there's more: there's a headband attached to the snake with three letters: WTO. Not really subtle, I grant you... in the panel before last, a piece of graffiti on the wall (only for French-speaking people)-->"Lyonik2"; (translate "Lyon nik tout","Lyons buggerz everything" because the story takes place in Lyons). Unreadable, I grant you...   Page 3 This page is faster and easier to read because less overloaded and more action. The small details in the panels (it's an obsession with me!) In the explosion panels, you can find the name of an association, the name of a Spanish group band, and the name of a song by a French group of rock. I think only the Spanish- and French-speaking people can find them.--> the Attac association (cf page 2), the Spanish group Ska-P and their committed lyrics, and "Patchanka", a song of the great late group Mano Negra. in the seventh panel (the third TV screen) two people are imitating two very famous characters of the world of comics and manga (they're too tiny though)-->the big guy at the left side is collecting the helmets of his friends policemen,he thinks he's Obelix. And a person in the air plays Son Goku, he's launching a Kame-Hame-Ha attack. the panel before last, only people from Lyons can find the hidden details-->the microscope logo at the left of "Hospital" is the offical logo of Lyons' Hospitals. The real Herriot Hospital in Lyon is named 'St-Herriot' here.