The Future of Comics

I started readin Octopus Pie and... I couldnt stop. this comic is great, i love how it slightly changes styles and the stories and quarky and funny and clever. ill definitely be a constant reader! i think this is a good future of comics. its very accessible to everyone and its fun to be a part of!

Reconsidering the Superhero

I read Crisis on Infinite Earth for this week's comic. THERE WAS SO MUCH THAT HAPPENED! the amount of people and environmental drawing was insane! it was detailed and gritty and I LOVED it. there story lines was just as crazy which is to be expected from these kind of comics but I really liked how many characters were used. a lot of the died as well which took me by surprise, i still dont read a lot of comics but i have never really heard or seen any that have an actual hero dying. I liked how they got Super girl and Batgirl in a comic together that was fun to see. Over all these were a really fun read!

Comics as Contemporary literature

I read Jimmy Corrigan the smartest kid on earth for this week's assingment and LOVED IT. it really reminded me of Stewie from Family Guy and i read the entire comic in his voice. the style was really cool it had a nice vintage look to it and i really enjoyed the borders. i got confused a lot reading through these, so much happened in each segment and they were all so insanely different from each other! they were just so weird. a very fun comic!

Manga and the Japanese Comics Tradition

I read Yaoi Cinderella Boy for this week's assignment. I have never liked or appreciated Manga before, and i still dont. but not to the extent before i actually read some of it. it does flow a lot better than i expected. the drawings and style is just way too much for me. the stories are actually kind of engrossing but i am just taken out of it because i am literally disgusted by some of the drawings. There are some that i am very impressed by, the poses are so ridiculous that it would be hard to draw and they seem pretty seamless. as far as this story goes, it was not what i was expecting. it took me by surprise in a few places and i laughed out loud a couple of times. mostly from how ridiculous the whole thing was but it ade me smile through out. Just thinking about having that kind of life and lying to that many people would be so hard to do. i liked this all in all and wasn't completely pissed off by the end like i thought i would be!

A Wide World of Comics

This comic made me really appreciate my life. Not being able to wear what you want to wear, not having the same rights as everyone else? no thanks. that is not living! The scarf or a beating really stuck with me. to get that violent over a piece of cloth because of a tradition is insane. shows how unreasonable and unchanging people can be. I liked the hard angles that some of the women's veils were drawn with. it made them look more evil. I really enjoyed this style. it was simple but complicated at the same time. it looked like a big black blob at times but the people's limbs were cut out with jarring white lines and were able to be separated after some time. the anatomy figure class was great. we used to do nudes but times have changed. they learned how to draw window drapes. To think that people had to deal with crap like this makes me angry. to hinder one's education because a couple of people think something is wrong is inexcusable. like I said this comic made me very appreciative of my life.

Stereotype and the ethics of representation

For this week's assignment I read Stuck Rubber Baby by Hoard Cruse. I didnt know there was going to be so much in one comic! it burned through a lot of heavy topics. I really enjoyed how real it felt, i really got drawn into the story and the problems everyone was facing. The style was great, i cannot even imagine how long it must have taken the artist to do all this work. it looks like a mix of traditional pen and ink line work with ALOT of stippling. I liked Toland as a character. he stood up for what he believed in and I really liked that about him. I wonder why he chose to makke all the characters look manly tho. the women were very burly and had big jaws and a lot of girth. At times the men were drawn prettier than the women! It was different and I liked it.

Mause

   Ive always been interested in the Holocost. we learned a bit about it in High school but definitely not enough.  I always was revolted by the things we learned about it, and I still have not seen Shindler's list and dont really have a desire to. I will never really choose to learn more about it, but if it is there in front of me then i wont look away. its terrible yet fascinating and I am drawn in by the curiosity of how terrible humanity can be.
   Seeing as how Maus had its characters as animals did not distract or take away from the story for me. In fact it was kind of worse, because its like showing anything no matter what can be this evil. the diagrams of the gas chambers and stuff freaked me out as well, it made it so much more real.
   All of the survivors must have had it so rough. I cannot imagine living through that and coming out as a whole person wether you were in the camps or one of the soldiers. it was all around so revolting that it did not surprise me when the mother committed suicide. yes, she left her husband and son, but i feel like she would never really be there for them and it would be worse to see her suffer. i liked that they used cats and mice as characters. it made it clear and simple and definitely exaggerated the german's powers over the jews. I was surprised how well the time transitions from the World War II era to the present in New York worked. I have never seen editing like this done  outside a movie or television seriesand worked so well before.  The reading and imagery flow effortlessly.I enjoyed the style to an extent. i thought it matched the situations and story, but im usually a fan of more detailed work.  All in all it was a good read!