Mother Come Home,Pages 34, 35, Analysis

Page 34 and 35.

Layout

Panel: Page 34 has three square panels to start, then two sets of four panels in a square. Then a square panel.

Page 35 has consistent vertical rectangles, four across and three down.

Frame:The frame is a black outline that gives the appearance that it was drawn in.

Gutter: The gutter is white maintaining consistent spacing between panels. One particularly annoying thing about the framing and gutter is the illusion of black circles that appear at the corners of the frames. This is known as a "Grid Illusion", and is rather distracting.

Bleed: There is no instance of bleeding within the piece. All the imagery and text is contained within the panels.

Foreground: All panels appear on the same ground. Within the panels the foreground is space before. with the exception of panel 12 at the bottom right hand corner of page 34. There we see the boy is in the foreground.

Mid-ground: The panels are all placed on the mid-ground. The panels are to be read from left to right. They are laid out in order.

Background: The backgrounds of the panels contain block colours.

Figures

Faces: The Boy wears his lion mask so we cannot see his face. We see his face in panel 2 , pg 34 top right hand corner he looks upset while looking at the dead spider on the news paper. In the next panel we see he is walk away from his mums grave. The artist links the death of the spider to the boys mother.  The boy looks at the dead spider and he mourns it, next panels he is walking away from his mums grave.
The dad seems to have no facial expression. This helps communicate across his numb emotional state.

Hands and feet:
In the second panel on pg34, the boy has his fingers on the dead spider. He is careful to touch it.
In the fourth last panel on pg35 the boy holds on to his leg to indicate pain.
 In the third last panel on pg 35, the cat who represents the uncle holds his hand to his
ear to indicate that he heard his nephew.
In the second last panel on pg 35 , the boy places his hand over his mouth to indicate shock.
In the final panel on pg 35 the cat has his paws placed in his lower back helping indicate that he is not impressed.

Text

Captions:
Captions are just wrote on to the piece. The use of captions in the two sets of four squares is very interesting. The first set has captions whereas the second set doesn't. I took this to mean that the second set has the same caption as the first. The lack of a caption on the second set makes it even more powerful. The reader is forced to look straight at the images confronting them and can't escape.


Speech Balloons: The speech balloons are wobbly, they are strange. They make me feel although the words being spoken are not being said strongly, but almost with a lot of effort.

Special Effects Lettering:

Theme

They is a pervasive theme in the panels above, that theme being a swing up and then down. This reminds me of the movement of the sun, which symbolically can be said to represent life. The sun rises to its highest at midday and then starts to set. so do animals grow to a point and then begin the descend to death.

We see it in the action of the newspaper in panel one, pg34 as it swings downward to kill the spider. 

We see it in the life and death of the rose, it trys to grow up but it gets pulled down. We see it in the father. We see it in the kid himself he gets pushed on the swing. he swings up and when he comes to land down he is in an imaginary world. He trys to jump over his mothers grave but he trips up and he falls and it is then that his uncle finds him. He tried to take on the role of his mother in the house but it was to much for him and his uncle found out that they were in trouble.