Author: cxnichol
I believe that comics and graphic narratives can provide a richer reading experience than a traditional story or novel. Comics are visual not simply in their text like books, but in their artwork. Artwork leads to a fuller experience because readers can actually see the characters and setting. Human empathy is a powerful tool and..
We’ve talked in class about the gritty, hyper-realism of both The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen but something I enjoy about Watchmen is that it doesn’t just exist in its own world, but in an alternate reality to our own. On page 4, one of the cops mentions the “Keene Act”, passed in ’77 that..
I think one of the qualities that I most admired about Batman Returns and what stood out to me as a big difference between Batman Returns and the original Batman, was the worldbuilding and characterization of Gotham. We talked in class about how in Adele Blanc Sec and Good Bye, the cities of Paris and Tokyo acted as..
Although quite different sophistication and topic, I noticed similarities between Tatsumi’s Good-Bye and the Crime SuspenStories we read earlier this year. Often, the stories each contained a slightly unsettling moral and contained characters with haumn flaws like greed or vanity. Additionally, in terms of layout, the stories in Good-Bye and the Crime SuspenStories all rely on splash pages..
As other blog posts have stated, the artistry of the Adele Blanc-Sec comics is stunning and the details of Paris really draws readers in. The comics have supernatural elements and the potential to have fascinating mysteries and plots. However, the stories just fall flat for me because the characters, especially Adele herself, are so weak…
One change I noticed in the layout of the X-men comics between the 1960s issues by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and the 1970s issues by Chris Claremont and Len Wein was the addition of longer, vertical panels. I honestly don’t think I would have noticed this if I wasn’t scrolling down on a pdf,..
In several of the comics we examined in class and the examples posted on Blackboard, there are many instances of Jackie Ormes breaking the fourth wall and having Patty Jo and/or Ginger be stepping slightly out of the frame or having small objects be positioned beyond the panel border. No instances are severe or jarring..