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…

to make sure you got your next meal? There are more than 3 million people living in poverty and struggle daily. Working long hours everyday and making an average of $2.45 a day; and believe it or not a large majority of these workers are children. Comic Relief is an organization based in the U.K. that is doing all they can to help put these children in schools. There goal is to get them out of some of these terrible working/living conditions. I heard about this organization about two years ago.…

Taking this course on Comic & Co. made me think differently about comics. I always thought comic is boring and all you see is pictures and less words, it’s more like a picture book. But so far in this course I learned so much about comics. The picture in the books does most of the storytelling. It explains why there is not a lot of words in comic books. The faces the author draws on the character tells a story. I learned that comics are not easy to make. There is so many different steps and…

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novel and autobiography that encompasses Marjane Satrapi’s life as a child in Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Satrapi writes a beautiful story but her use of graphic imagery really allows readers to connect and understand to her personal and mental growth. Throughout the story, Satrapi goes through a great change in personality which is fueled by her residence in revolutionary Iran. Her personality matures and is greatly affected by the repression and the…

Comic have been one of the newest forms of literature, with the first comic strips being introduced nearly 120 years ago. One cartoonist who has been instrumental to comics gaining notoriety in recent years is Art Spiegelman, who drew and wrote Maus: A Survivors Tale. This series of comics gives a detailed account of Art’s Father, Vladek Spiegelman and his survival of the Holocaust. While the world is no stranger to Holocaust literature, Maus brought the genre to comics in a manner which takes…

The purpose of the Porter’s scene is to provide comic relief because the play is at such a high level of intensity after King Duncan is killed that the this scene is placed to lower the level of intensity so that when Duncan’s body is discovered it will raise levels of intensity again. The Porter gives rise to a metaphor in the act, relating Macbeth’s castle to the gates of hell. He refers to satanic images and Beelzebub, which is the Devil, and the porter refers to himself as the gatekeeper.…

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…

If there was one article that really stuck out to me throughout the semester, it has to be Nagel’s “What Is It Like to Be a Bat”. It’s concept and philosophy fixed itself into me and I tried applying those ideas to other articles as we went on. This article addresses one of the big questions of consciousness that tends to float around when discussing philosophy, which is what is it like to be something other than yourself? It isn’t too often that you debate on whether or not something or someone…

father and her husbands affairs. The color scheme that a graphic novelist uses in his or her narratives go a long way in describing the setting and tone of the story. Ware uses a different color scheme for the two separate pages of his comic. On the first page of the comic, for instance, the colors are more bright and vivid; giving it a happier, more relaxed tone. Ware uses a bright panel when he illustrates the grandmother and the little girl bonding in the kitchen while cooking pancakes (Ware…

Comics, graphic novels and manga can tie generations together, can start a trend or a give a group of friends a place just to hang out. And the store that houses them can make a difference. Going into a mainstream store as opposed to a smaller-in the hole-comics/graphic novel store is a bit different. For instance, you really have to dig deep within the comic locator or friends of friends to find these small-tucked in the corner of nowhere-places. The mainstream bookstore that I went to was…