cubes. Join us in making mosaics, street art, design 3D sculptures and learn the secret to making the prefect spiral. Choice 2 A Study of Diversity using Comic Book Ironman, Wonder Woman, and Batman were all introduced to motivate the world that change is possible in the world. With the rise of movies like Avengers, the popularity of comic books and characters are exploring different topics of social justice. What can we learn from this art and communication? Is it influencing our world…
Superhero Comic Books Berlatsky’s article, “The Female Thor and the Female Comic-Book Reader” (2014), argues that girls are interested in reading superhero comics as much as boys; there has been a lot of speculation whether comic books were created to entertain only the masculine audience. In order to stop the sexism that has been going around in the superhero comic book industry, Berlatsky uses the logos Aristotelian appeal to inform the comic book audience that girls have been a fan of comics…
Maus is a very unique comic book very different from other comic books this comic book tells us about a horrify event. Maus tells us a story of a person that survivor the Holocaust his own father Vladek. The comic book use animals instead of people and the use different animals for different race. This helps the reader understand more what is going on then having human characters. Maus is more affective as a graphic novel because it involves horrifying grey and black comic book as well as a…
believe can do with some unpacking is a comic book character’s role in rhetoric. Since the genesis of Marvel and DC the…
Lichtenstein was inspired by advertisements and comic strips. Lichtenstein was able to make his art work look like it was printed off a giant printer. He was recognized as one of the leaders in the Pop Art movement which included Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenbirg. Lichtenstein’s art provoked debate over the ideas of originality and the fine line between fine art and entertainment. Roy Lichtenstein’s most famous works would be his collection of comic strips, which are very…
In 2009, Zack Snyder filmed the first and only adaption of what was considered to be an “unfilmable” (Van Ness 172) graphic novel: Alan Moore’s Watchmen. Moore was a firm believer in the fact that it was a story unable to be transferred over from a comic to another medium – the story was meant to stay in the medium it was designed for. The graphic novel allows for a complex, metatextual narrative structure to be employed to tell such the story of Watchmen that is filled with much ambiguity. In…
Comic books were quite popular and successful in the 1940’s because they provided “Exciting entertainment” and were inexpensive (Bondi 362). The 1940’s was the Golden Age of comic books and they came in different genres to accommodate different audiences (Bondi 369). The comics were available to all groups, including children, teenagers, and even adults. These comic books increased American Identity by changing the norm and leaving a long lasting legacy. The rare legacy that the comic books…
Bob Dylan, things have drastically changed. Since that has happened, comic book movies have taken over the movie screens. It’s an uglier world with uglier heroes and uglier villains, and “Logan” is the product of that world. All of those years and feelings together form the latest installment of Fox’s blockbuster X-Men cinematic universe: “Logan,” directed by James Mangold. Loosely inspired by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s comic mini-series called “Old Man Logan”, where the beloved Wolverine…
remained. He loved being apart of a group and he was happy to have some friends, but he remembers how it felt to be the kid with the comic books. Granted he was never thrown into a dumpster, but he did know how terrible it felt to be alone and beneath the football players. “It’s time,” said Brett. Jason slowly walked into the circle towards the kid with the comic books. He was fidgeting with his glasses, trying not to look afraid but Jason could see the fear in his…
foremothers could only dream about. Yes, generally speaking, it's a pretty good time to be a woman. The only problem is that we are still trying to overcome the sexism that is alive and kicking in the comic book industry. Boys read comic books, and girls should play with their pink Barbie dolls. The comic book industry is one place that still has not evolved as rapidly as we would all like, but it is trying. There are at least three types of sexism in the industry today, from the lack of women…