Perhaps the dominance of visual media or other changes in literary taste have occupies the market of graphic novels, nowadays children aren’t that passionate about comics, and surely they won’t collect each issue of their favorite comic and preserve them as a treasure. The superheroes and villains’ stories may seem cheesy compare to today’s graphic novels, which are likely to depict creative fiction or memoir. While, I have two graphic novels masterpieces for you that are so different yet in a way alienate with each other, “The Watchmen” and the “Persepolis”.
As you may have heard or watched the movie “The Watchmen”, its original comic is written by Alan Moore. The epic of a superheroes gang fighting against the war set in a background of late 20th century. On the other hand, Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” uses a minimalist drawing illustrates her experience growing up in Iran during the Iranian Revolution. While reading the two graphic novels of “Persepolis” and “The Watchmen”, you’ll be subconsciously comparing and contrasting the features between the two stories.
So how does the weird-dark color palette comic have any common with a childlike …show more content…
Manhattan all had been influenced somehow by their childhood memories, it particularly depicts a lot of Rorschach’s childhood memories, which we can see its impact on his later life. Similarly, in “Persepolis” Marjane is currently at the stage of transforming, and you can see how she gradually interferes with events and its influences. As I mentioned above, they share similar rebellious characteristic, yet “compassionate” “helpful” and “positive” all these words can be used to describe Marjane cannot apply to Rorschach who can opens up a dog’s skull without blinking his eyes. One topic arises from analyzing that’s particularly fascinating is that how Marjane and Rorschach shares transformation through childhood experiences yet leads to form completely different
As you may have heard or watched the movie “The Watchmen”, its original comic is written by Alan Moore. The epic of a superheroes gang fighting against the war set in a background of late 20th century. On the other hand, Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” uses a minimalist drawing illustrates her experience growing up in Iran during the Iranian Revolution. While reading the two graphic novels of “Persepolis” and “The Watchmen”, you’ll be subconsciously comparing and contrasting the features between the two stories.
So how does the weird-dark color palette comic have any common with a childlike …show more content…
Manhattan all had been influenced somehow by their childhood memories, it particularly depicts a lot of Rorschach’s childhood memories, which we can see its impact on his later life. Similarly, in “Persepolis” Marjane is currently at the stage of transforming, and you can see how she gradually interferes with events and its influences. As I mentioned above, they share similar rebellious characteristic, yet “compassionate” “helpful” and “positive” all these words can be used to describe Marjane cannot apply to Rorschach who can opens up a dog’s skull without blinking his eyes. One topic arises from analyzing that’s particularly fascinating is that how Marjane and Rorschach shares transformation through childhood experiences yet leads to form completely different