“Fluorescence”
Made for Comics Workbook
Thinking about Andrew White’s text and how it relates to his images today. Here we see one panel with text, and how it informs and brings focus to the subsequent panels. It suggests a mindset in response to continuous, monotonous stimuli. Irritation, maybe.
The first panel, by being before the text panel, is separated in function (it is not as though the first panel is about dripping, or seemingly the mood invoked), and therefore feels like it informs another level of the mindset of the unseen character. A peaceful image, tree tops. It’s mirrored at the bottom, with a scribbled panel where the text once was. A narrative forms: peace, bearing through irritation, eroded peace.
It is interesting to observe how the text both informs the content of those narrative beats, and serves as the delineation between the first two.