I was attracted by this cartoon at the first glimpse. Although it is not a comic strip, it still can tell the story in a symbolic way.
The cartoonist uses the map to represent a flat. He uses the elements of map such as spots to symbolize the furniture and to divide the flat into different parts. For instance, the lake,the black spot and the routes symbolize a window, a desk and passages in the flat respectively.
Moreover, the dotted line marks the boundary between Matt's territory and Jessica's. Indeed, these territories represent the rooms of the flat. The cartoonist also creates two funny names for the rooms: Republic of Matt and United States of Jessica. They sound like the names of countries.
"What the hell was I looking for anyway" is possibly said by the sleep-walker who lives in the flat. When he is walking around in the flat, he does not know what he is doing. Later on, the sleep-walker wakes up suddenly while he has just opened the refrigerator. What is more, Jessica or Matt probably is the sleep-walker.
Reference:
Matt Madden. 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. Web.
http://exercisesinstyle.com/
The cartoonist uses the map to represent a flat. He uses the elements of map such as spots to symbolize the furniture and to divide the flat into different parts. For instance, the lake,the black spot and the routes symbolize a window, a desk and passages in the flat respectively.
Moreover, the dotted line marks the boundary between Matt's territory and Jessica's. Indeed, these territories represent the rooms of the flat. The cartoonist also creates two funny names for the rooms: Republic of Matt and United States of Jessica. They sound like the names of countries.
"What the hell was I looking for anyway" is possibly said by the sleep-walker who lives in the flat. When he is walking around in the flat, he does not know what he is doing. Later on, the sleep-walker wakes up suddenly while he has just opened the refrigerator. What is more, Jessica or Matt probably is the sleep-walker.
Reference:
Matt Madden. 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. Web.
http://exercisesinstyle.com/
