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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel is an autobiographical graphic memoir that correlates her coming of age with her discovery of her homosexuality. Bechdel is also battling her inner fears that came along with her upraising but is baffled by the unearthing of her father’s own homosexuality. Her artistic decisions are affected by her homosexuality because she chooses to add stereotypical gender roles. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic develops a proper story line by…

characters and my mom had actually taken notice. “Why don’t you go to this Wizard World thing? That Stan Lee guy you talk about is going to be there, and some Walking Dead characters.” Stan Lee is one of the original people who worked with Marvel comics. She brought up the Walking Dead characters for my brother, who’s a fan of them. Wizard World is a traveling convention that goes to several major cities. This particular one is called Wizard World Chicago, even though the convention…

The article, “Equally Super?: Gender-Role Stereotyping of Superheroes in Children’s Animated Programs,” by Baker and Raney is about an interesting phenomenon that is not spoken about often. It is the idea that children 's cartoons with superhero’s are actually sexist and stereotypical. The article explains that Baker and Raney are researching whether or not cartoons are stereotypical and sexist or if it has changed from the first time this idea had been researched about 40 years ago. Baker and…

alive for Marvel fans. With dozens of film on the way in the coming years (maybe even another decade), there definitely won 't be any shortage of super heroes actions. With new films constantly being added to the list, here are a few that will have comic books fans feel like they’re in heaven. Ant-Man and the Wasp An Ant-Man sequel, titled Ant-Man and the Wasp is now set to release in 2018. Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly are expected to resume their roles as the main characters, Scott Lans and…

as an assistant, he was the only man who applied for the job when he got there and found out that there was an opening in the comic division, he thought why not, so he became their gofer for the only two people working there at the time Joe Simon, the editor, and Jack Kirby,the artist they Made Captain America ("How I Did It:).Sarn Lee made one of the most successful comic business of all time Marvel, due to his unique characters, the…

At the age of ten, my family and I traveled extensively due to my father’s military career. We actually experienced life through the tough years when the United States fought in the Vietnam, “conflict”. Many members of my immediate and extended family have served their country in various affiliations within the corp; this includes my own son, in the Marine Corp. As a child of traveling parents, I felt like a gypsy unable to plant a solid foundation; however, I did develop a sense of free…

preferred ones. In the article it explains when comic books were first started, it was a short story book with black and white colors. And as time passed, a larger color variety was being offered with your reading. Although Comic book collection is popular to some individuals, times have changed. With updated changes in technology, we are able to carry many comic books through apps. To sum the article up, we are now able to carry hundreds of comics in our smart phones, and with colors as if it…

linked all together until the big reunion of them all, like in the Avengers. They planned to do it for what they call a second “arc”: Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Captain America 2 and finally a new Avengers movie in 2016. But as this model is also used by DC Comics for Batman VS Superman movie, we can ourselves one question: Is this model sustainable and desirable? Firstly, we’ll see that this model brought a lot of things to current movies and is the fashionable model. Secondly, I’ll show that the…

fear of getting hurt since their favorite character also gets hurt. • What are the strengths and limitations of the media used?  The strengths of the advertisement are that people that who watch the Avengers and read the Marvel Incredible Hulk comics know who the Hulk is. For people who know who the Hulk is can see how strong these band aids actually are. The limitations of this advertisement is it can only people who watch the Marvel movies can relate to this and trust the advantage, but if…

(“The History of Comic Books.” TheComicBooks.com.) After World War II…