Week 1

Week 1

Shaun Tan's, The Arrival, is a novel that tells the narrator's journey of his immigration. The interesting part of this story is it is a wordless novel. The author uses only illustration to tell the story. I believe this is the very early kind of comic and a huge innovation.  The illustration shows his experience of how he sees and feels in the new place. The illustration is like series of picture record down his life. 

The illustration also refers his feeling in the way of art style. We can tell what kind of emotion just by viewing the picture. I think this is a very advance storytelling and has the huge effect on the later comic.

I study film as my major, for me comic is a very intriguing style of a literature. Telling the story by picture makes so many sense. I feel like Shaun Tan's, The Arrival is a middle point between a novel and a film. As the pioneers the comics it shows the charm of the comic.