Archie Comics

In the world of comic books, graphic novels and manga, I have acquired my love for these types of reading for entertainment, but learning from the course of Reading Graphic Narratives, I learned to not only value the text or only the drawings when reading these types of texts, but to instead value both text and drawings to compile the meaning of the whole story. Another meaningful detail I learned in this course was, video games and graphic novels both share the elements of text and visual art.…

Max Allan Collins, a mystery author, is an intelligent and creative writer. Even though he started making comic strips, his mystery works are tremendous. Max was born on March 3rd, 1948. He grew up on 117 Lord Ave., in Muscatine, Iowa. As a child, Max had few hobbies and interests. He adored comic books, music, and movies. He had a collection of about one hundred authentic comic books hanging in his home. Max’s favorite music was rock and roll. He stated that rock and roll would most likely be…

Books are a source of entertainment and information, they also represent people and show their interests. Books define people in some way, it has been researched that people who read comic books mostly play video games. Most people that read calm books tend to be calmer than say all the fire, gang and violent books. Many times books help us realize things we have never thought of or just did not understand, in the book Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag reads a poem from forbidden books to three…

The comic book scene has changed substantially over the course of this past generation. Whether it be the mass production of superhero themed movies and animated television shows or the various video games and toys—the industry has grown exponentially. As the industry expands, so does its audience. The stereotype that comic books are only for white, nerdy males no longer stands true as the audience opens up to females from various cultures and races. This being said, characters within comic…

Maus written by Art Spiegelman was the most intriguing comic book that I have ever read, I did not want to let go once I got a hold of it. I soon believed after reading a few pages, how important it is to not judge a book by its cover. The cover has two mice huddled together with a gigantic Nazi symbol above them dripping red (probably blood). The Nazi sign on the front cover made me feel like I was about to read a history book. My first impression of Maus seemed like it would be boring and…

Homosexuality in the comic book world has been been a pressing topic in the industry as of late. With the growing push for LGBTQ reprenstation in mainstream media, it has become an even bigger discussion. With all the other major media, comics have been very involved in the push for inclusiveness. There have been two same-sex marriages on the covers of the Astonishing X-men and Archie, and the first transgender comic book character, the roommate of Batgirl, Alysia Yeoh, was introduced. It seems…

during this time period is because this was the first time a black superhero had been the protagonist (Demby par. 23). The Black Panther and Falcon failed to have their own lead role, but Luke Cage did not. In “Hero for Hire Volume No. 1” created by Archie Goodwin in 1972, Luke Cage was an inmate at Sea Gate Maximum Security Prison who was convicted of a crime that he did not commit. While in prison Cage had encounter multiple racist characters including, Captain Rackham and the guard Quirt.…

Comic have been one of the newest forms of literature, with the first comic strips being introduced nearly 120 years ago. One cartoonist who has been instrumental to comics gaining notoriety in recent years is Art Spiegelman, who drew and wrote Maus: A Survivors Tale. This series of comics gives a detailed account of Art’s Father, Vladek Spiegelman and his survival of the Holocaust. While the world is no stranger to Holocaust literature, Maus brought the genre to comics in a manner which takes…

father and her husbands affairs. The color scheme that a graphic novelist uses in his or her narratives go a long way in describing the setting and tone of the story. Ware uses a different color scheme for the two separate pages of his comic. On the first page of the comic, for instance, the colors are more bright and vivid; giving it a happier, more relaxed tone. Ware uses a bright panel when he illustrates the grandmother and the little girl bonding in the kitchen while cooking pancakes (Ware…

If there was one article that really stuck out to me throughout the semester, it has to be Nagel’s “What Is It Like to Be a Bat”. It’s concept and philosophy fixed itself into me and I tried applying those ideas to other articles as we went on. This article addresses one of the big questions of consciousness that tends to float around when discussing philosophy, which is what is it like to be something other than yourself? It isn’t too often that you debate on whether or not something or someone…