History of Comics and Graphic Novel`

I think its interesting that the author starts his story with the use of a hitler quote "Jews are undoubtedly a race but they're not human" and proceeds to draw the Jews in this story as anthropomorphic mice.In the first sequence is about Artie crying that his friends left him behind skating. Artie's father Vladek says you'll find who your real friends are when you and them are tied to a tree with nothing to eat. I think because the Polish were called pigs. the art style is woodcut like and transitions of the comics are. I like format of how it goes from the artist and his father talking about the story of the Nazis and the holocaust to back to their current.I find the personality of the father to be humorous to balance out the seriousness of the holocaust.there also seems to be some sort of behavioral pattern that the artist draws to about his father.he'll go from throwing out Artie's coat and replacing it to picking up wires on the street,and not wan...

So... I have to say I was kind of uncomfortable reading Mickey mouse with a sexual nature to it.I can see how Disney takes their copyright seriously as their company takes their image very seriously. I know from experience because I used to work at Walt Disney World and you would get fired right away. I dont think these comics were written to challenge the norm of the comic book industry in a mindful way. there is power in sexuality, but i think this for slapping Disney's family values in his face. If Im honest I dont even find humor in this comic because i dont think it makes sense and it might be intentional it just feels sloppy in execution. It was probably distributed as a parody of Disney but it feel detrimental to genre of parody. Maybe i dont want to admit I'm bias because i did state in this same post that I worked for Disney but I've seen other parodies of Disney from SNL and online that I found funny. but the humor for this seems detached almost as it seems tha...

Well normally I dont read comics or watch media that talk about God unless if its a biblical story. I dont know why but it feels out of place for me to be reading a fictional story about God, or that I'm reading someone else's opinion about belief. which usually doesn't sit well with me as I am raised with a catholic background, strict on using the Lord's name in vain. which is a separate subject on its own but I wanted to write this as a way to say I was bias when I was about to read this comic. But I think this story is good as the contract is a hubris to the main character who thinks God owes him for his hardships and past actions. and a contract means that both parties have to be on equal standing or terms. The story starts with Frimehleh , a Russian Jew who was told growing up that god will reward him for his deeds. but as the attacks on his village kept coming and then the village elders were going to send him to America. the small tablet Frimehleh uses to mak...

I read Carl Bank's Donald duck comics which helped bring the whole duck-verse to life which transitioned to Disney Television show "duck tales". I enjoyed the cartoon adventure and shenanigans that Donald did to win, be right, etc. and how he was still somehow the underdog in this series compared to his nephews. but i think that the point since the graphic novel was garnered at young readers. But in same way i like it also because the comic shows that Donald and his nephews rivalry is good natured and still come through for one another. like in one instance Donald tried to outsmart and cheat his way in a horse-race against his nephews but still lost and got fined for disturbing the public, his nephews who won the race gave him the winning money to pay off the fine. I read E.C comics the Haunt of fear issue 14. where the format is short stories told by 3 stereotypical old women, one being a witch and the others being the vault keeper and the crypt keeper. even thought th...

Scott McCloud wrote a analysis of a comic within a grander comic. He differentiates what makes comics different from other mediums of entertainment. he says in his in cartoon form "what timing does film, spacing does for comics". his analysis of transitions almost bring me back to film and narrative, in how similar the transitions give a perceive idea like soviet montage. but its also interesting how the panel transitions of comics are similar to other works of authors Herge's Tintin, and any jack kirby superrhero comic have similar transitions but are radically different in the execution and stylistic use of the panels apparently their most common type of transitions were subject to subject and action to action. he then looks over Tezuka's work which i found interesting,he uses a different variety of transitions, in almost equal amount. from subject to subject and action to action,  to one that's almost unique to Japanese manga and thats the Aspect to Aspect ...

I really enjoyed reading Little Nemo, I had known about it from the animated movie that sat on the shelves at blockbuster but never picked up. and to be honest, I'm glad my first interaction with the series was through the comic and not the film because itself is so innovative it wasn't captured by the animated film. I think its so interesting how its basically made for weekly comics, as Winsor McCay writes and draws a whole adventure that starts with nemo sleeping and ends with Nemo Waking up usually fallen out of bed. but what makes Little nemo iconic is  the panels in between the first and last panels. it seems that McCay understands maybe even personally how dreams work, because the panels seem to transition in a way like an actually which is captivating. I would have loved to have been a child when this comic came out. In Peanuts I've always read peanuts in the news paper but from reading the original Peanuts I can see that the format has change. now peanuts might ha...