Comics

media forms of pathos, from his alleged death conspiracy to his favorite childhood comic cameo. During the late 1960s, the theory of Paul McCartney’s death sprang up when…

they were to have stigma. Participants who viewed comics as having a mental illness and relatively more humorous, aggressive, “like me” and sincere had decreased stigma. An affiliative humor style was found to be significantly associated with all perceptions of the comic. An aggressive humor style was significantly related to viewing the comic as only humorous or aggressive. People assigned to the sketches that disclosed the information that the comic dealt with mental illness or the sketches…

Today I volunteered for four and a half hours at Santa Clara Central Library, Comic Con event. I signed up for this event because I want to learn more about comic con, and since this is the first time that Santa Clara have the comic con, I want to be a part of the event to see how it goes. At first, I didn’t expect that it was crowded like it was, because of how this is the first time our city doing comic con. At the event, I did meet a lot of new people and some event from cities that are…

villain found within modern comics drastically differs from the villain found in Silver Age comics. This change in villain can be seen in other works besides the Batman comics. Ana G. Gal talks about the characterization of the hero and villain in Stoker’s Dracula in her essay “The Social Modes of Heroization and Vilification in Stoker 's Dracula, a Graphic Novel by Roy Thomas and Dick Giordano.” Within this essay, Gal addresses the change Dracula has undergone in his comic and the changing face…

Modern Myth, Meet Feminism Jennifer K. Stuller Jennifer Stuller is an American writer, editor, popular culture critic, and historian best known for her work on female representation in comic books, TV, and movies. The main idea of the text is that as the later half of the 20th century progressed, women depictions in media became increasingly progressive, sexy, and complex. The reading was assigned to give us a sense of how hard and long it took for women to be depicted as equals. Modern Myth,…

A comic book generally consists of a system of related panels with images that may or may not incorporate text in order to tell a story. Unlike a traditional novel, a comic book is able to incorporate certain visual elements of rhetoric. These elements of rhetoric range from, but are not limited to, motion lines and visual perspective, to color intensity and the style of the font chosen to print the lettering in. These elements of rhetoric all work together in order to more effectively tell…

as an informed audience. Each of Watterson’s comics presents a specific attitude or trend in individuals which is directly criticized by Calvin and or Hobbs much the same way Juvenal went around blatantly confronting individuals during his time. Both go after everyone and anyone with the comics specifically addressing the school system, parenting behaviors, modern family dynamics, normal behavior, and so on. A wonderful example can be seen in the comic linked below. In this strip, Calvin’s…

inference, time, space, lines and colour. In my comic I used three out of the five conventions of graphic novels. The three conventions I used in my bitstrip was time, lines and inference. I addressed time in my bitstrip by making some squares lager then others because more time had gone by till the next square. In my comic, lines were used to show that Hamlet was mad when he had saw Laertes jump into the grave with Ophelia. Hamlet is portrayed as mad in the comic because he loved Orphelia more…

The Tusks of Wusterim at first read presented a simple comic describing the rise and fall of an alien empire. Once the reader examines the comic he will see the depth contained within the few panels. The author uses element throughout the comic to show that empires thrive when those that built its foundation take power. The comic begins with an empire building tusks as a symbol of their power. A man of high authority within the empire commissions the tusks and stands as the foreground of the…

DC Comics. In this case, two brothers who are musicians, Johnny and Edgar Winter, argued that DC Comics appropriated their identity in the “Jonah Hex” comic book series. They argue that the two characters in the series, Johnny and Edgar Autumn, have specific characteristics that would lead others to identify the characters as themselves. One similarity that the Winter brothers argued were the names of the two brothers, Johnny and Edgar, which they felt DC Comics used to reference them…