For my final project, I weighed the pros and cons of both the creative option and the analytical option. I finally settled on the creative option, not because I think we've exhausted our analytical approaches in the past, but because the creative option gives more leeway into what you can produce. I chose to produce a Choose your own adventure with purely pictures. The only text on the page will be the choices, and even those will be fairly simplistic. It garners quite a bit of dissection, to interpret the picture and subsequently the event it is describing. I'm by no means an artist, so this will also present quite a challenge to both me as the artist and the reader. I may incorporate snippets of actual pictures as elements of each picture. Specifically, I may draw a person, but not the chair they're sitting in, instead I might find a picture of a chair and implement that etc.. I'm not sold on what story I intend to follow, however I don't want it to be a run of the mill abducted-by-aliens-sort of story. I hope it turns out the way I'm imagining it to, and makes sense to the readers.

Two classes ago while we were talking about Little Nemo, we touched on how the topic of narration/description by way of narration. In the first few comics of Little Nemo, nearly every panel had text written under it describing what would be going on in that certain panel (or the story as a whole if text got cut off.) I brought up one of the differences in narration for Manga and Traditional American comics, that being that Manga typically doesn't have too much of it.

From what I've read, Manga is often very explosive, filled with action, and incredibly detailed (as detailed as a black and white picture can get, anyway.) This isn't to say that traditional American comics are all drawn carelessly, all we need to look at to reassure us of that is, in fact, Little Nemo. The comic in which the zoom-in of the gigantic elephant is drawn is rendered with amazing detail: http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/images/comics/Little%20Nemo/hs_Little%20Nemo%20-%201906-09-23.jpg.

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