{"id":548,"date":"2009-08-27T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2009\/08\/structure-101\/"},"modified":"2009-08-27T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T10:30:00","slug":"structure-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Structure 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke yesterday with my friend and mentor Mark Newgarden. We talked about structure in comics. It was a very enlightening conversation. Basically, Mr. Newgarden reminded me that <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">reduction<\/span> is the key to making sequencing and transitions work.  <\/p>\n<p>So, as I polish up my next rant about what structure actually is and how most comics today lack any real understanding of structure, I thought I&#8217;d direct our readers over to Mr. Newgarden&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laffpix.com\/\">website<\/a>. There you will find not only an assortment of laughs and novelties, but also a remarkable essay entitled &#8220;How to Read Nancy&#8221;. This 1988 essay written by Mr. Newgarden and Mr. Paul Karasik is a priceless jewel of information. I&#8217;d venture to say that it is a self contained comics graduate class. <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Comics Comics<\/span> readers are encouraged to start here before any further discussion of structure can take place on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Please download the &#8220;How to Read Nancy&#8221; pdf <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laffpix.com\/howtoreadnancy.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and don&#8217;t forget that &#8220;How to Read Nancy&#8221; is being expanded into a book that will be published by Fantagraphics in the spring of next year. Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2960&#038;Itemid=94\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke yesterday with my friend and mentor Mark Newgarden. We talked about structure in comics. It was a very enlightening conversation. Basically, Mr. Newgarden reminded me that reduction is the key to making sequencing and transitions work. So, as I polish up my next rant about what structure actually is and how most comics today lack any real understanding of structure, I thought I&#8217;d direct our readers over to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[413,850,1012,1242],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bushmiller","tag-newgarden","tag-karasik","tag-structure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}