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McCay enlisted the help of a young neighbour, John A. Fitzsimmons to help trace the backgrounds while McCay devoted his efforts to animating Gertie himself, ten thousand drawings in total. Upon release Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914 McCay and his animated creation were a hit. The film was a landmark title not only for having the first animated star, but for being the first with a proper storyline as well (Goldman, 2005). Up until this point animation had been mostly the work of individual artists…

Entertainment now-a-days has gone crazy. “A nationally representative study found that the average American 8-to-18 years old [plays] video games for 13.2 hours per week.”1 An “average American worker spends nearly $1,100/year on coffee.”2 This is just two of the many statistics that show how much entertainment we as Americans enjoy. We can also find places in the Bible were they had times of entertainment. In Mark 6:21, we find Herod celebrating his birthday. “And when a convenient day was…

The Absolute True Diary of a Beauty, a Beast, and a Part-Time Indian Books are an irreplaceable. They play a valuable part on shaping personal growth and development in a child’s life. They are meant to inspire and expand their awareness on how they live and where they live, intensify their capability to express themselves, and give them inspiration in a way that other means cannot. In stories, such as Jeanne-Marie Leprice de Beaumont’s version of “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Absolutely True…

It is emotional, insightful, complex, and the visual and verbal details are mind-bogglingly captured by Bechdel as the cartoonist. The story progresses as the linking of Bechdel’s memoir of growing up in Pennsylvania, having deep love for reading and books, writing to her father, complex relationships with her parents, and staying true to herself by coming-out. Bechdel’s illustrated…

League of Nations. Another newspaper cartoon by Nelson Harding shows the disapproval the America public felt towards the ratification of this treaty. One can see this bias within Harding’s cartoon, “Well, I’m Thankful I Have My Health!.” The cartoonist wishes to show the public Uncle Sam sitting in a chair, sick, and in poor health. One arm is bandaged and reads “Cost of Living” while the other arm states “Prohibition.” One foot is named "Strikes, Bolshevism," and the other foot is soaking…

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German American architect that designed buildings and exhibitions, yet what made Ludwig different from other architectures is that he designed the furniture that was implicated in these structures. He was a designer in the 20th century and designed his products in the modern movement style. Ludwig was one of the most, if not the most influential designer during the 20th century period. He was one of the leading figures in the modern movement; he pushed this…

There are the soldiers such as generals in the back who are high up in the ranks that make all the orders and then there are the soldiers up front who execute those orders. After World War II ended in 1945, Bill Mauldin, a military journalist and cartoonist for Stars and Stripes published a nonfiction narrative with several of his cartoons called, Up Front. In the book, Mauldin focuses on the infantry soldiers on the frontline of a war that he calls “dogfaces”. These dogfaces, are the soldiers…

A Native American boy is born on the Spokane Indian Reservation in 1993. His parents, siblings, grandparents, and cousins are alcoholics. Almost every person who lives on his reservation is an alcoholic. The boy’s family is very poor. Poverty plagues most people who live on the reservation. Many times throughout his life, the boy goes days without eating. He becomes an alcoholic by the time he is 18. On his 25th birthday, he is in a car accident. He was drinking while driving. He hit the other…

When one thinks of how many people participated in the war, they probably only think of how many soldiers fought in the war and how many casualties there were. Due to the art of propaganda, most of the citizens from each country during World War II were acting participants because it lit a fire in everyone’s stomachs to help their country’s cause in whatever way possible. A teaching fellow at the Alabama Department of Archives and History wrote, “During World War II, the government undertook…

Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein was a man of many hats. The hats were all made up of the arts in which he took taste for. From his cartoons to his folk and country songs. From his very crude and adult work on the stage to doing children's poetry. Shel was not only a man of brilliant talent, but also a bizarre creature unlike of any man. He didn’t start off with talent as a kid however. Shel was born September 25, 1930 in the heart of Chicago, Illinois. As a child he did not possess many…