Comics

masculinity is depicted everywhere in our society from movies to books to comics. It is a socially constructed set of attributes for boys and men to achieve. Some common characteristics include: strength, heroism, audacity, control, unemotional, superior, fearless, honorable, and heterosexual. In a 1950’s issue of the Vault of Horror, the horror comic, “Split Personality,” aspires to primarily critique the notion of ideal masculinity. The comic delineates the male protagonist, Ed King, as a…

Mars Borges Literacy narrative My first comic I fell in love with was Baby Mouse— a sassy elementary schooler going through the ups and downs of early public education. She was funny, the stories were fun, but more importantly, I loved the look of the books. Every comic had a limited color palette of black, white, and pink, which I found to be the coolest thing. The speech bubbles were distinguished, the text had a unique font, the art was cute— sometimes I didn’t even need to read it, just…

the space and time of the work. To specify, when the readers come across the comics, the changes of space and time of the narrative arranged by the author can be realized. Moreover, in terms of the topology of space and time, different narratives can interact with and comments for each other. For instance, when the character telling a story to someone else in one narrative, there occurs another narrative. And the comic can show the two narratives via showing the time, scenes, characters and…

When you think of a comic, you contemplate that you are learning anything, only realizing that in order for the comic to work it needs a starting point, a joke, some sort of plot, and a punchline. At least for most comics that have multiple strips. However, looking at comics from a sociologist point of view, you can see where paradigms and sociology terms apply. For the comic that I chose and will illiterate on in the text, I discovered the conflict theory paradigm along with several other terms…

allusions to comic book storylines and characters. The stories told in the comic books are what we, the readers, regard as fantasy or make believe. However, Jackson contrasts this by including poems that reflect real life situations and emotions which are not usually present in the lives of superheroes. This contrast between real life and the perfectness of the comic book world is a prevalent theme throughout the book, especially when looking at the two poems "The Secret Art of Reading a Comic…

Spy vs. Spy is a completely wordless comic strip created by a Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohias, and first published by Mad magazine in 1961. Prohias has fled to the United States days before the last of the free press in Cuba fell under the regime of Fidel Castro. Ironically, the very person who has driven the cartoonist from his own country has given him an inspiration for one of the greatest projects of his life. In Cuba anyone who opposed Castro was considered a spy, and that’s what Prohias…

After reading the Ramayana comic book and the two Sanskrit versions of this epic poem, I decided to focus on the excerpt Ayodhya to compare to the comic book. Similarly, various texts when translated, can be interpreted inconsistently as to how the writer had originally intended or as the audience is supposed to interpret the text. We see that in these texts, when comparing them there are some major differences, from which questions may arise. Some questions presented may be, “What is the right…

This comic is by Kevin Siers, published in 2003 in the Charlotte Observer, where it is a local newspaper in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is a comic about a conversation between a father and son about same sex marriage and the acceptance of it, whether or not it is the same as an interracial marriage where there is a plot twist in the end of the comic, as the dark complexioned wife of the older white man has joined them in the comic. By doing this comparison Siers gets the readers to compare the…

book excerpt also compares to the Ramayana comic strip book. Many ideas remain constant throughout these two sources of the story, but some unfolding of events and differences between characters arise. These two sources interpret a different story, along with transition differences between the two. First, the book and the comic portray a difference in the unfolding of events. One major scenario illustrating this exists as Sumantra escorting Rama. In the comic, the morning of Rama’s crowning as…

Nietzsche Comic books have engaged young people since the Golden Age of the 1930s to 40s and continue to engage young readers of the 21st century. Little did we know that according to Dr Fredric Wertham, M.D., comic books seduce the innocent. He was so concern about how the child’s mind reacts to the ‘badly drawn, badly written and badly printed…’ comics, that he set up a clinic and his findings indicated that comic books were a major cause of juvenile delinquency. So, why have we allowed…