EC Comics

Comic books are contemporary forms of art that touch in the categories of art, literature, and entertainment. From DC and Marvel (which are my personal favorites) to the other comic book companies and brands that are less known by the outside readers, there is a broad range of comic book characters and story lines. Like art and literature, comic books and their characters, styles, and icons change over the course of time. Similar to entertainment in general, these changes are made to better the…

people say we all judge books by their covers! When we look at comic book covers there is often a clear representation of a certain genre. The genres have varying art styles to match, along with color schemes, even certain words that trigger certain genre expectations. This is prevalent, especially in the 40’s with Plastic Man # 19 and True Crime Comics #2. The true crime genre was undoubtedly one of the most memorable genres of comics during the 40’s. It had highly deplorable themes and images.…

students get tired of reading Shakespeare. Though his plays were revolutionary and are written eloquently, the elevated language and use of out of date terms often causes students to lose focus or not fully comprehend the value of the text. While comics used to be at the complete opposite end of the spectrum from Shakespeare, if one could even justify their presence in the literary world at all, they are now taking the world by storm, moving their way up the literary ladder. While they may never…

people, a lot. Like getting really connected. Making comics is very solitary work which I don’t like”, Alexander-Tanner states. “I’m not a type of person who wants to just sit in a room and not interact with anyone for hundreds of hours. It just goes against my nature which has been a big struggle in this work. So I really like the parts when I’m talking with people or getting information”(Alexander-Tanner). He uses real people for his comics and bases the content and/or storyline around them.…

The passage and lecture are both discussing comics which is it really uniquely American art form or not. The author believes that the initial popular comic strip and also, the first famous comic book is from the United States which is completely wrong fact that is proven by the lecturer. Lecturer argues not only America created comic, but the whole world did. On the reading, the writer points out the first popular comic strip was Hogan’s Alley, published in the 1890s by American cartoonist R.F.…

United States of America is the promised land for comics” (Ruzicka 46). Comic books have been around for a very long time — almost dating back to the late 1800’s. Many see these books as merely a form of entertainment; however, they are more significant than that. Comics and graphic novels reflect the American societal values of the time through their main characters, the character’s struggles and the character’s adversaries. The fact that comics and graphic novels contain the social ideology of…

saying the main focus of comics is the photos, not the text. 2. An important claim found in McCloud is the authors definition of comics. He defines it as sequential art containing any kind of style, quality, or subject matter. Another claim is that the basic difference between animation and comics is that “animation is sequential in time but not spatially juxtaposed as comics are.” The author also states that “it doesn’t have to contain words to be comics.” Meaning that comics are based upon…

Comic books on the surface appear to be simple. However, beneath that surface lies much more depth than the images give off. The making of comics and how each individual scene is drawn, and laid out has much more complex workings than most readers would expect. Ella Cinders by Bill Counselman and drawn by Charles Plumb is one such example of how much depth and thinking goes into making comic strips. The strips themselves talk about the adventures of a woman named Ella. Beneath that, every little…

Johnna Rizzo.Rizzo is a well known writer who resides in Washington D.C. This article discusses comic books and why they have become popular. Comic books became popular in the 1930’s, during a time of hardship known as the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, comic books became a way for anyone who needed some sort of cheering up. It did not matter who they were and their age, or status, the comic books were there for everyone to feel relief. People saw comfort in these superheroes…

The details and descriptions instilled in comics that I am going to talk to you about, do not do justice to what fantastic things you can find in a comic. It could take days, maybe years, maybe even five minutes; but, I am going to boil mine down to three topics in three different graphic novels. Think you can keep up with that? I think you can keep up with that. The three literary terms I am going to discuss upon are: The idea of framing when it comes to graphic novels, how coloring makes a…