Blankets

Blankets is the autobiography of the author  Craig Thompson. For me personaly I did not find this graphic novel appealing. I mean I understand its well written and nicely exicuted. But it got too Zac Effrony for me. I'm just had a hard time finishing the book due to the fact it was very emotional. After I read Blankets I imeaditly read Hellboy and Savage Dragon comic. Which I found way more appealing, like who dosent want to read a slugfest like that. 

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Nemo

While reading Little Nemo, I found the story or the adventures he would go on not that exciting. But the art  work on the other hand was very eye pleasing. The Layout of the panels was very graphic with the use of margins and in the latter published panels got a more modern graphic design look. I enjoyed that there was a new adventure every week. The one thing that kind of was an eye opener was how psychedelic some of the designs and layouts where. It was cool that someone was doing that type of style while not on acid. At least I don't think he would of.

Understanding comics

In Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics their are many interesting things that I have not noticed before while reading a comic book. One of the things that was an eye opener for me was in chapter four, time frames. The idea that we could see and understand time in comics, but not as a single moment but almost in real time. The thing that tricks are brain into the illusion of time is sound, closure and words. After reading the chapter it was like a light bulb went off in my head. I realized that I have spent a good one too, two minutes on a single panel because I was tricked into the idea of time. The way Scott uses a rope as an example of time passing through a panel is genius. He made it very easy for people to understand that there can be time and motion in comics. But also in that time and motion is where you get a sense of emotion and humanistic feeling. Basically what I got from this book is that the author is a genius in describing how you would understand a comic.

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

The story I understood from The Arrival is someones journey to find a better place, the American dream. To me the thing that stuck out was the representation of the horors and the hard ships the people went through that made them migrate to that free place. I couldn't help make connection to WWII and the invasions of countries at that time. For example the giants with flame throwers destroying the town, which felt like it should have been Nazi tanks destroying the town instead. One of the things I thought was very clever on avoiding words in the novel, was making up his own representation of immigrate trying to learn a new language. With the use of symbols and than the main characters drawings in his journal to help show others what he needed.

The way the pictures are laid out is very similar to a story board, which is the back bone to the films and animation. Which I think made the readability and the understanding of the book easier on the readers. 

CLASS UNO

ANALYZE

Pic one - A woman becoming free from her oppressor. Standing over a chicken or cock a male roaster. While her oppressor is laying at the bottom of the stairs.

Pic two - A woman represnting sleeping beauty or snow white figure in a slumber. But in stead of a prince
charming there is a big rooster man standing above her. To wake her up and make her slave.

Pic Three - A woman is dead and appears to be in a grave. Also a naked woman holding her clothes or a cloth is standing in the back. Showing she is the next girl to be a slave to The Man.

Pic Four - The woman finding her freedom, killing her self to escape her oppressor.

Pic Five - The cock man standing behind a book shelf where a woman had just hung her self. With another woman standing close by, but not in shock or fright when gazing upon the dead woman. Showing that she too is dead or she is dead on the inside.