Love and rockets by Hernandez Bros.

i liked how it is very contemporary because i could relate to the comic more. It portrayed how teenagers are "rebels" towards their parents where they do not show any respect to them, they show sex hints in the background, for instance, usage of posters on their walls, and there was drinking and smoking cigarettes with swear words in the mix.  Even in the beginning a character referred his sister as a bitch.  Also this comic portrayed the drama that comes with being a teenager, it had a "love" story sort of, maybe more of crushes, and then how joey wanted to find his record really bad but it kept being handed off to another person and every time he went to that person they handed it off to someone else.  The only thing was that i got so interested into the story about all the characters and it ended so abruptly and very confusing. I will never know if joey will find his record, i will never know what happens to joey and tom tom, and i will never know if izzy and the girls will find a new house since they are being kicked out.  But i really enjoyed the simple illustrations, the black and white worked out, normally i do not like black and white comics i chose color over it, but i had no complaints about reading this comic.  I was very amused and satisfied besides the ending.

Wide World of Comics

Blacksad Quelque part entre les onbres


As an illustrator, ( which i feel like i always say, but it's true) i cannot help but just watch the visuals more than the text.  But the good thing about this, is that it is in Spanish, so i really cannot pay attention to the text, since i am not fluent in spanish.  BUT, the illustrations are sweet.  I like the style, and i like how the characters are sometimes animals such as a cat or dog.  Which i s weird seeing a cat and a dog work together... since in real life most of them do not.  Without knowing the text, i think its about a criminal investigation in the beginning where the dog and cat are talking about how she died, but seems to argue about what happened. The panels i think are really set up nicely, but as i keep going back looking through what i experienced through this comic, i just cannot get over the illustrations, i am becoming a fan of these.  I am confused at some parts in the comic, one minute the main detective is investigating people  that could of been related to the crime and then one minuet doing some girl showing up with a rose from the guy he was investigating.  Or maybe he was stealing a rose from him and putting a gun in his mouth, i will never know, but i highly doubt that scenario. But i really got lost, i keep coming up with a million things in my head of what the story could be but none of them seem right. I would like to know what this comic is about and what each scene is saying... but other than that i am in love with illustrations and i think this comic is fresh and clean looking that keeps it orderly.

Rumiko Takahashi—Ranma Book 1& 2

I decided to read a little bit of this comic over break because i wanted to go out of my element and read something that i am not aware or familiar with.  Well at first, while i was reading i was getting incredibly confused about how the wording was and who was talking.. it just felt very jumpy and i didn't know where to begin.  But after awhile i started to catch on how the wording was going and got on their level of the jumpiness, so i started to enjoy it better. 

For the most part i felt that this comic was weird, i mean i liked how different it is from most comics, but trying to keep up with if Ranma Saotome was a girl or boy.  And it was like in the second chapter they were going to tell what was the deal with Ranma, but instead they started fighting and then the panda turned up again.  So now i figured out that Ranma's father is the panda due to maybe chinese training?  But i feel like i totally missed out why or how Ranma is portrayed as a girl and boy.  It seemed like it was resolved but i still am not clear about it.


For the comic, i didnt care too much about the character designs, i am not really a fan of anime, maybe the only person that doesn't... hopefully not.  But, it seemed to me to have an anime feel to it, and the text was sometimes confusing when the would jump from one panel to the next panel. 


I liked this comic, just because it was different to my comfort, and i liked leaving that comfort that i have been doing in the beginning of the semester, but it took me awhile to catch on and i am still trying to.

King: Ho Che Anderson

WOW. these illustrations i just loved so much.  I mean i was having a hard time reading than actually looking in detail at each and every illustration. I kept looking at how they used newspaper photos in the composition in a orderly manner way.  I thought it was cool how in my American Creativity class which is held on tuesday mornings, we were just talking about Dr. Marting Luther King and the bus boycotts and his "I have a dream speech,"  and to be reading this as well i feel like this week i learned so much about him.  The pictures of him getting through what he had to do which he knew was right and to see him beaten up was just astonishing.  Another thing that i was thinking, these illustrations kind of reminded me of a jagged edge, very straight edged, like Braque or Picasso.  Not broken up like how they did, but in some sort of way it does remind me of that.  Anyways, I have to say this was a moving comic about his biography and it definitely kept me interested in reading.  Lastely, i notcied that Anderson gave each person in this a unique, creative voice, which makes the movement in this narrative so much stronger.  But i really enjoyed reading this and viewing the illustrations, it was very motivating to maybe try a style like that as an illustrator. 

Maus: Art Spiegelman

I have to say i liked Maus, i really liked the illustrations to how it was more of a novel than a comic.  Also, i sometimes got a bit lost because it would jump back a bit and then back up to where it was, it was just jumpy, so i had to re-read it sometimes to get it.  I felt as though it was real affective on me because an idea such as him and his father going through the changed life of being Jewish was very real to me.  I liked how they played with the idea of how cats "hunt" for mice in real life, so in the story the mice were the Jewish people and the cats were the Germans; making it seem there is definitely an upper hand or authority.  If this comic was with people instead of animals i feel like this would have maybe gotten lost, but with the animals we can connect with it and somehow make it "fun" in our minds where we would be more interested.  Maybe they chose to do animals because it gets away from the gruesome pictures of just having dead bodies, and with the mice it makes it not as horrible to read.  I have to say overall, i am very pleased that i read this, it is just a great illustrated comic that tells a story about people that went through one of the worst historic events.