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Reed College 2022 English GraduatesEdi Kim
Thesis topic: Constructed Utopias or Translating Silence
Will Knight
Thesis Title: Extended Gutters: Sequencing Space and the Narrative Power of the Panel in Watchmen
Using Watchmen, as a particularly self-aware comic, this thesis considers the art of the panel sequence, narrative voice over, and Bakhtin’s chronotope in the medium of comics. I explore the novel concept of “crime-fighting time” in Watchmen as it describes a delineation of space which occurs in moments of vigilante combat. Furthermore, I address Rorschach’s voice-over narration as a noir pastiche, and the way Moore and Gibbons subvert Rorschach’s narrative authority by comparing his descriptions to the focalization provided by the panel image. Finally I briefly address Zack Snyder’s 2009 film version of the comic in the way it attempts to adapt some of these unique formal features of comics.
Favorite part of Reed: I’ve gotten the chance to meet some wonderful people and work with some excellent professors.
Favorite English class: Michael Faletra’s Dante’s Divine Comedy
Take away lesson: As long as you swipe into the mill before 2am, you can stay there all night to work on your thesis.
Using Watchmen, as a particularly self-aware comic, this thesis considers the art of the panel sequence, narrative voice over, and Bakhtin’s chronotope in the medium of comics. I explore the novel concept of “crime-fighting time” in Watchmen as it describes a delineation of space which occurs in moments of vigilante combat. Furthermore, I address Rorschach’s voice-over narration as a noir pastiche, and the way Moore and Gibbons subvert Rorschach’s narrative authority by comparing his descriptions to the focalization provided by the panel image. Finally I briefly address Zack Snyder’s 2009 film version of the comic in the way it attempts to adapt some of these unique formal features of comics.
Favorite part of Reed: I’ve gotten the chance to meet some wonderful people and work with some excellent professors.
Favorite English class: Michael Faletra’s Dante’s Divine Comedy
Take away lesson: As long as you swipe into the mill before 2am, you can stay there all night to work on your thesis.
Tyler Kwon
Thesis Title: Where will we go from here?