Lit. of Comics Blog

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...

Maus is a very moving. It takes the medium of comics to a whole new level, with its very personal storytelling and narrative. I think the best part about how this biography, is how it is structured. The dialogue is very believable and feel like real people naturally talking to each other. I also found it very interesting that the author included the moments of conversations between himself and his father. Going into this book, I thought that it was just going to be completely involved in a personal story of the holocaust. I didn't expect it to also show the real life aspect of what was happening in the present (at the time it was written). Up until now, all the comics we had read have been very character and plot driven. This comic however, very much showed the author's connection to underground comics. Halfway through volume one, we are shown an underground comic that he made about his mom's suicide and how it affected himself and his father. It was very personal and hon...