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.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
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.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Underground Comics
Well i chose to look at the gay comix, which i thought was hilarious. The first cover with the gay boy in tight short shorts eating a hot dog sexually in public defenitely drew me in. haha.
These are funny, just because they are simple gay jokes that even straight people can get. There a jokes from a girl trying to figure out if she is a lesbian or just a bi-sexual to lesbian couples having problems in their relationships to a boy trying to figure out if she could come out or even comfortable with his orientation. I thought the characters maybe were a little overly gestured which i liked, like for instance, the one girl's tongue was four inches long and it curved a lot. The characters also were sometimes a bit "scratchy" the lines weren't put together kind of looked like it was rushed the style. Also with some jokes was a reference to L.A. saying how it shouldn't be impossible to find another lesbian in L.A., just because it is known to be one of the biggest city of lesbians and gays. The couple parts are pretty hilarious, showing how lesbians do cheat on the person they are dating, or how they think they can date two people at once. They mostly showed a lot of couples or people that are not "trustworthy" but there was like one or two , i dont know about two, but where the couple was actually committed to each other. I dont know if that was intentionally to show that they are "non- committing" or what, but it was kind of bogus to me.
When i read "Billy goes out" i thought it was hilarious too, i mean they are i guess, but it showed him imagining himself doing another guy and like him talking to his penis, which i never saw in comics lol. But then they had the rejection list for when someone approaches you at a bar for the first time, and i have to say when i read it, it was correct. I mean everyone in their mind takes about what... five seconds to know if they like the person or not. It starts with the looks, then goes down to how did they hit on me? too strong? too weak? its facts, and i liked how they had that above a panel like he was thinking about it.
I enjoyed these underground comics, especially this one just because it was real and joking about being gay.
These are funny, just because they are simple gay jokes that even straight people can get. There a jokes from a girl trying to figure out if she is a lesbian or just a bi-sexual to lesbian couples having problems in their relationships to a boy trying to figure out if she could come out or even comfortable with his orientation. I thought the characters maybe were a little overly gestured which i liked, like for instance, the one girl's tongue was four inches long and it curved a lot. The characters also were sometimes a bit "scratchy" the lines weren't put together kind of looked like it was rushed the style. Also with some jokes was a reference to L.A. saying how it shouldn't be impossible to find another lesbian in L.A., just because it is known to be one of the biggest city of lesbians and gays. The couple parts are pretty hilarious, showing how lesbians do cheat on the person they are dating, or how they think they can date two people at once. They mostly showed a lot of couples or people that are not "trustworthy" but there was like one or two , i dont know about two, but where the couple was actually committed to each other. I dont know if that was intentionally to show that they are "non- committing" or what, but it was kind of bogus to me.
When i read "Billy goes out" i thought it was hilarious too, i mean they are i guess, but it showed him imagining himself doing another guy and like him talking to his penis, which i never saw in comics lol. But then they had the rejection list for when someone approaches you at a bar for the first time, and i have to say when i read it, it was correct. I mean everyone in their mind takes about what... five seconds to know if they like the person or not. It starts with the looks, then goes down to how did they hit on me? too strong? too weak? its facts, and i liked how they had that above a panel like he was thinking about it.
I enjoyed these underground comics, especially this one just because it was real and joking about being gay.
Eisner & Thompson
For Eisner, i read The Spirit and the Contract with God. With the Spirit, i noticed right away there was some type of slang/ accent, and if it was an accent i couldn't figure out what kind. The spirit is about a drim fighter who gets blessing from the police commissioner, sort of reminds me of Batman, which involves drama, mystery, horror, comedy, and love stories. And with the Contract with God, i loved the drawings, they were awesome pen and ink, which they almost looked like etchings. I thought it was a little cracked out when the guy was drunk on whiskey and his kid was crying and he threw it across the room. It's just crazy to think about someone actually doing such a thing.
And, when i read Thompson's work, which i did not read Blankets but i did Doot Doot Garden, i fell in love with this comic. I love weird, corky, disgusting things that are comical. When i first opened the file and i saw the characters it reminded me of Salad Fingers, which i loveeee Salad fingers, so i was already in this comic. As i started reading i thought the text was awesome, it was out of the ordinary. For example, a character said "I found a good buoyant log an i'm floating myself down a river of diarrhea." hahaha, i love it. The text bubbles were pretty cool as well, instead of being the simple shaped rectangles or squares that are perfect, but they are more like curved fun and different shapes that kind of goes with the characters inside them. Also he is not afraid to cut off a characters head which you normally do not see.
And, when i read Thompson's work, which i did not read Blankets but i did Doot Doot Garden, i fell in love with this comic. I love weird, corky, disgusting things that are comical. When i first opened the file and i saw the characters it reminded me of Salad Fingers, which i loveeee Salad fingers, so i was already in this comic. As i started reading i thought the text was awesome, it was out of the ordinary. For example, a character said "I found a good buoyant log an i'm floating myself down a river of diarrhea." hahaha, i love it. The text bubbles were pretty cool as well, instead of being the simple shaped rectangles or squares that are perfect, but they are more like curved fun and different shapes that kind of goes with the characters inside them. Also he is not afraid to cut off a characters head which you normally do not see.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Superhero Comics: Batman
i decided for this week (02/03/2011) to read some batman comics!! dun dun dun.
So i was trying to compare the older verisions compared to the latest that was on the website. First i started off at the somewhat present batman comics, and i was very surprised how awesome they are! I couldn't keep my eyes off of the illustrations, details, the panels, the compositions, mostly everything. i thought that this comic was so well thought out and i was very impressed how together it was. I loved how the panels on the outside, the biggest panels, would have panels on top of that one, or overlapping them to make the composition better. At the part of the love scene i like how they are creative to put on the borders of the panels and put roses, so you knew it was some-what romantic. Or how the way the used color, the would use black and white panels for the past and the colored ones for the present, which i thought was interesting especially when they were in the same panel how they would make it fade into the past.
After i read the present comics of batman, i went further into the past. the only time i liked the illustrations was from the bat girl comic, which was a neat more simple illustrations then other. But the very past batman's, i did not like the illustrations, maybe because i saw them after the present, but they were boring with single panels, very separated, and not very creative like how they are now. They were missing the dramatic scenes and lighting that the present has to offer even the compositions.
So i was trying to compare the older verisions compared to the latest that was on the website. First i started off at the somewhat present batman comics, and i was very surprised how awesome they are! I couldn't keep my eyes off of the illustrations, details, the panels, the compositions, mostly everything. i thought that this comic was so well thought out and i was very impressed how together it was. I loved how the panels on the outside, the biggest panels, would have panels on top of that one, or overlapping them to make the composition better. At the part of the love scene i like how they are creative to put on the borders of the panels and put roses, so you knew it was some-what romantic. Or how the way the used color, the would use black and white panels for the past and the colored ones for the present, which i thought was interesting especially when they were in the same panel how they would make it fade into the past.
After i read the present comics of batman, i went further into the past. the only time i liked the illustrations was from the bat girl comic, which was a neat more simple illustrations then other. But the very past batman's, i did not like the illustrations, maybe because i saw them after the present, but they were boring with single panels, very separated, and not very creative like how they are now. They were missing the dramatic scenes and lighting that the present has to offer even the compositions.
McCay: Little Nemo, Herrimans: Krazy Kat, Schultz: Peanuts, Watterson: Calvin and Hobbes
With this assignment, i could not start out with any other comic but to most definitely start out with Calvin and Hobbes. Maybe it is because it was my childhood memory of comics, but i used to collect the books filled with their comics.
Now reading Calvin much older, i start to understand a lot more than when i was young. It's just a brilliant comic showing the imagination of a little boy(kid) that could consider anything to happen, such as a monster in a closet or a water monster in the tub with him. Even his stuffed animal Hobbes, is made to be real in his imagination and then in another panel it comes back to reality where if the parents are by the tiger he is depicted as a stuffed animal. This comic portrays a childhood that everyone can relate to through comedy of the jokes that adults can even relate too.
For the reading Little Nemo, bad on my part. I thought i was reading the right thing, but i guess i was not. I happened to read the nemo classics, and i have to say going from Calvin to Hobbes to the nemo classics, i was bored and found myself not being interested in the comic. But after class, listening to the class discussion i read it after class the right little nemo, and i enjoyed it. I like how it is a dream sort of land that makes you more interested in the environment more than the characters. I found my eyes following the environment more than the characters. I also notcied that the parents in this comic seems to not really care for nemo's imaginative creative work, not like how calvin's parents would just pretend that would listen or maybe do and go along with it. Like how Calvin's mom told him that she was making an eyeball stew from a crazy animal, and he seemed to be more interested in that than the spaghetti.
And the other comic that i read, was Krazy kat, since i never heard of this comic. I liked how simple it was as an illustrator, and how it shows a dream to reality really well. For example, the one comic strip the dream was in numbers ( the panels) and then when it turned into reality the numbers turned into numeral numbers and started off at one again. It makes it separate, but yet it is still so together. In our class discussion i didn't notice until it was brought up, but even the environment background always changes even if it is not a drastic change where the character is.
Now reading Calvin much older, i start to understand a lot more than when i was young. It's just a brilliant comic showing the imagination of a little boy(kid) that could consider anything to happen, such as a monster in a closet or a water monster in the tub with him. Even his stuffed animal Hobbes, is made to be real in his imagination and then in another panel it comes back to reality where if the parents are by the tiger he is depicted as a stuffed animal. This comic portrays a childhood that everyone can relate to through comedy of the jokes that adults can even relate too.
For the reading Little Nemo, bad on my part. I thought i was reading the right thing, but i guess i was not. I happened to read the nemo classics, and i have to say going from Calvin to Hobbes to the nemo classics, i was bored and found myself not being interested in the comic. But after class, listening to the class discussion i read it after class the right little nemo, and i enjoyed it. I like how it is a dream sort of land that makes you more interested in the environment more than the characters. I found my eyes following the environment more than the characters. I also notcied that the parents in this comic seems to not really care for nemo's imaginative creative work, not like how calvin's parents would just pretend that would listen or maybe do and go along with it. Like how Calvin's mom told him that she was making an eyeball stew from a crazy animal, and he seemed to be more interested in that than the spaghetti.
And the other comic that i read, was Krazy kat, since i never heard of this comic. I liked how simple it was as an illustrator, and how it shows a dream to reality really well. For example, the one comic strip the dream was in numbers ( the panels) and then when it turned into reality the numbers turned into numeral numbers and started off at one again. It makes it separate, but yet it is still so together. In our class discussion i didn't notice until it was brought up, but even the environment background always changes even if it is not a drastic change where the character is.
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