Lit. of Comics Blog

The art in this work is absolutely beautiful. It utilizes a lot of delicate painting (with what looks like copic markers?), while also being able to create movement with more aggressive line work and ink strokes. This comic also has a habit of breaking the frame. One of note that I really liked was when Lewis was going into why he had so many chickens in his office. The page went from perfectly straight boxes, to organic strokes and linework. It didn't just jump to it either. It had one transition panel that was 3/4 straight lines, and 1/4 the organic strokes. This made it feel very natural, while still standing out, and displaying to the viewer that they are going into a flashback. Another really interesting choice that works really well is the use of varying typefaces. When he is quoting his mother, the text is in cursive, and then the next panel has the normal (what appears to be handwritten) font, but then switches again to a really bold style of text. A lot of really good and

I originally read Fun Home in my Lit and Media class last year. It's a very interesting dive into another memoir. One thing of note that I found interesting, was the choice to produce the comic in a monochromatic blue color palette. It is still with only basic shading, and would have been almost exactly the same if released in the normal black and white, however the blue makes it stand out more. I also feel that it provides the narrative with a calmer tone because of the calm color. I'm not talking about the actual story, as much as I am talking about how the author's voice came across. Another element that I really appreciated was how the panel boxes weren't straight, and instead they were more organic. This visual effect makes the book feel more personal.

This was an interesting comic to read. It's about these two best friends, and one is in love with the other, but the other one has a really shitty boyfriend. I was a little surprised that this comic had lesbian themes in it, given the time that it came out. I wasn't alive back when this released, so I can't attest much to the climate surrounding gay people back then, but I was pleasantly surprised with the direction this comic took. It definitely still felt a little dated, but it was still an interesting read.

This was a really interesting read. It isn't something that I would normal gravitate towards, and honestly I only picked it because rats are in the title and rats are really cool. I really appreciate all of the dynamic color palettes within the comic. It is constantly changing, while still being coherent within the page. The comic itself is about a homeless artist, who gets taken in by someone on the street. One aspect of this narrative that I appreciated was how the main character was mainly inspired by Beatrix Potter. I also felt the same way and was inspired by her, so reading this part resonated with me a lot.

I grew up watching anime and reading manga. I took a break from it though for a couple of years after coming to college, because I didn't have much time to watch with subs. However, at the beginning of this semester I really fell back in love with it again with Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba (KnY)). I walked in on my roommate watching in, and the animation was absolutely stunning. I would put it at the top of my list for best animated anime, personally. Anyways, we watched it together while it was releasing, and the first season ended nicely, and they announced a movie. I was pretty impatient though, so I read the whole thing, and caught up with everything in pretty much one day (this week). I read pretty slow, so it took me all of Saturday to finish it, but oh my GOODNESS so much stuff happened in it. I highly recommend watching/reading it if you haven't already. It is so wonderful, and the characters and their developments are fantastic. It really succeeds in making the mean

The existence of underground comics was a new idea to me. I never really heard about them prior to this class. I got one about The Tortoise and the Hare, and it had a lot of shocking content. There was a lot of sex and drugs in it, but also in one of the drug trips, Mickey Mouse and other licensed characters made an appearance! It was very surprising to see those topics mixing in a printed medium. The book also had a beastiality comic about a young girl getting licked by her dog. That one was probably the most shocking. The underground comic moment seems to be just a no-holds-bars era of comic production, letting everything seem out of people's minds, whether they were an artist or not. There was also a very racist comic about a Chinese man, and they author tried to type out his accent. Overall, it was a very interesting thing to discover that happened within the world of comics. I think that the idea of anybody being able to make a comic and publish it, is a very well accepted par