Comics

One of the most difficult aspects of entertaining people is finding something that a large audience will enjoy, and can relate to. A majority of the plays written by Shakespeare in the Elizabethan era were performed to influence the audiences and stimulate thought and debate about different aspects of life including social, and economic issues that were relevant during the time period. Going to see a play was something that people of all social statuses were able to do. Wealthy citizens would…

“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” John W. Tukey. Comic books and graphic novels are expected to have colorful graphics and plain dialogue. They display fantasy worlds filled with buff heroes and busty women or cartoon animals and loveable sidekicks. Maus by Art Spiegelman is a story about the Holocaust, but in comic book form. It tells the story of his father, Vladek Spiegelman, and his encounters during the Holocaust as a Polish Jew.…

When one typically thinks of comic books or graphic novels such as Archie's or Marvel and D.C. superhero series come to mind. However, it is a common misconception that graphic novel only have the power to convey silly scenarios or fantasy action stories. In reality, there is more to graphic novels than just fiction. Meaning that they can also be of the nonfictional genre and one example of being Maus by American comic book artist, Art Spiegelman. Maus is a two volume-set story of Spiegelman's…

At the beginnings of comics, and still in most comics today, women have been portrayed as the ‘damsel in distress’. In the past, women have only been in comics as a love interest and as someone for the hero to save, but slowly over time, that has begun to change. This change has been seen mostly in the movies or television shows. As of today, we are starting to see more powerful superheroines, but they are still poorly portrayed in the comic industry. This paper will be talking about how women…

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…

In the comic strip Peanuts, featuring “Good ol’ Charlie Brown by Schulz, it started off with Charlie Brown, the protagonist, complaining about the way their baseball game was turning out, and how they were losing. Within his complaint, he mentioned how he didn’t understand why he had to suffer by losing by so many points. This prompted his teammate to say “Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward,” which was a quote from the Book of Job, a book about a man named Job who was essentially…

foreshadowing and comic relief for the readers. Foreshadowing in literature is usually found in the surrounding setting and language in the context, while the comic relief is found in the characters. However, unlike other literary works, The Hobbit’s foreshadowing and comic relief can be found in the songs that are scattered across the entire book. In The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, the songs and riddles provide a source of foreshadowing and comic relief for the readers. The first example of…

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.…

society are chastised with a specific end goal to incite transformation in the objects of criticism. Despite to what extent comic drama may have existed; the idea of satire was presented by the Roman humorists, Juvenal and Horace. The tones passed on in their composition portray the fundamental methods of satire and are still utilized as a part of satire today. Two common types of comic drama that utilize ironical components which incorporate satire are news sources and comedic shows. Even…

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…