Ghost World

In Isabel Allende’s novel The House of the Spirits, there are two definitive classes of people that are present throughout the novel. The poor class, including the peasants of Tres Marias and the socialist party members, has continual resentment towards the other class, which is the wealthy aristocratic class. The wealthy division of the novel shows little humanity towards the poor, treats the poor as servants, and control all politics involved in the country. The wealthy’s treatment of the lower class shattered the peace experienced by Chile because the poor and the wealthy maintained a struggle to co-exist with such division between their

Although books full of words are more efficient in delivering and describing what the author feels, sometimes pictures can give a deep meaning depending on how they are organized. The Veil by Marjane Satrapi’s is a graphic novel that’s organized in a particular way, to deliver a certain message through the pictures. Marjane includes different sizes and frames that serve what she is thinking and feeling. Choosing certain sizes, frames and colours isn’t arbitrary. As each box increases in size, it means that she wants to emphasize the message behind that box, or show her relation to that particular text. Contrast is also one of the main elements that Marjane uses in her graphic novel. For example, on page five, there is a big picture of

John Carpenter’s Halloween was released in the fall of 1978; little did he know, his independent film would change the face of slasher films as we know it. This film was responsible for ushering in what we recognize today as modern horror. With a budget of just over $300,000, Halloween was shot in 20 days. It went on to become the highest grossing independent film of all time bringing in over $60 million until 1990; however, this film was not an instant success (Halloween UnMasked, 1999). Halloween also brandished a newer type of hero - a heroine. Jamie Lee Curtis has become known as the Scream Queen as a result of this film where she paved the way for other heroines in the slasher genre.

Every comic has a unique style that makes the comic to stand out to readers. A comic’s style is made up different pieces that come together and give the comic the uniqueness that the readers fall in love with. Comic writers have to decide what type of framing style, transitions, emanata, layout and cartooning style they need to have in their comic to fit the story. Ella Cinders by Bill Conselman and Charlie Plumb has a very interesting narrative and cartooning style that fits well with the story the comic portrays. Throughout this paper I am going to explore the narrative and cartooning styles in Ella Cinders to understand why the styles were chosen and how they enhance the story.

The two pages begin with a frame where Art Spiegelman as the cartoonist (we know it is the Art as the cartoonist, partly due to the scene, but also in great part due to the use of masks rather than the complete animal metaphor used throughout the rest of the novel) is being interviewed by a pair of dogs, as specified earlier, signifying Americans. The characters are standing upon this pile of mice corpses with flies buzzing around them. As the frames continue, Art Spiegelman is further accosted by different groups of people. Following the dogs, a man wearing a cat mask begins to interview Art about the criticism he has been receiving in Germany. After the man in the cat mask, a person in a mouse mask asks him about Israel. Following the person in the mouse mask, another person appears in a mask that is trying to make a business offer, but the type of animal that is represented is indistinguishable. Also in this frame, the image of Art begins to shrink as he sits in the chair. In the following two final frames on the first page continue, Art's image shrinks even further until he is the size of a small child. It is even seen that he is acting like a small child as he begins to cry. On the next page the frames begin again, but all the people that were previously interviewing him have disappeared. However, in the corner of the first frame, there is a fly still buzzing around. Then in the next frame, Art makes further commentary about

Similarly, comics aren’t simply words and pictures put together without a specific mixture of the two. There is much chemistry that allows each comic strip to stand out from the next strip. McCloud shows many ways in which words and pictures can be used in comic, he says “The different ways in which words and pictures can combine in comics is virtually unlimited.” (741) He covers only a very short list of the different ways for combining words and pictures to create different styles in comics. A few examples given were word specific, picture specific, and duo specific combinations. Word specific combinations need the help of words because the illustration cannot stand on its own to tell the complete story. Picture specific combinations are illustrations that tell the complete action but have added words as an additional “soundtrack”, as McCloud calls it. The duo specific combinations show a strip of clear illustration and words that tell the same story with or without one another. This same idea is shown in the article “Great Presentations: Tips from Great Presenters”; Ken Krogue introduces the idea that a person should be able to know if they are comfortable with what they are about to speak about if they don’t use note cards. He rhetorically asks the readers, "Could I speak without notes? One way to measure how prepared and passionate you are is whether you need

Charles Hatfield’s essay, An Art of Tensions, that comics are marked as being “easy” to read, when in fact they are a complex means of communication. “Comic readers must call upon different reading strategies, or interpretive schema, than they would use in their reading of conventional written text.” Chris Ware is often noted as a cartoonist who elevates comics because of the number of literary awards his work has received. Ware got his start in the 1991 in RAW Magazine, continuing his work in his series Acme Novelty Library. One of his most notable comics is Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth. Readers learn to appreciate his comics on a higher level because they cannot rush through his work. It’s complexity is a result of his use of text, diagrams, and pacing. Comic readers value Ware’s artistry because they have to work for understanding.

The comics combine words and pictures. We know how to read words, but how do we “read” pictures. Look for general and specific examples of image as “text” in Maus. How do Spiegelman’s images supplant or circumvent words?

When looking at the likes of Ghostbusters and King Kong, understanding all of the possibilities a remake offers is essential. In any case, not everybody is energetically anticipating the new remake of "Ghostbusters," which will release on July 15, 2016 by Sony Pictures. The remake will be featuring an all-new female cast which in response was heavily criticised and not received well by many at all. Almost immediately after its leading women were announced in January 2015, it has been the subject of extraordinarily negative feedback from a subset of prospective moviegoers who, however have not seen the film, say that it should not have been changed and that its female cast is an admission to political accuracy. From the earliest days in pre-production,

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a famous, Pulitzer Prize winning tale about the journey of a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Despite the amount of similar storylines, Spiegelman’s creativity with the normal elements of comics has won him high praise. This analysis will focus on Spiegelman’s unique twist on icons, layouts, diegesis, abstraction, and encapsulation as displayed by Maus.

Sequential art, better known as comics has long been a male dominated industry where mainstream comics are known for their action-adventure stories. Although a minority, women have been a part of the sequential art industry since the late 1800s working as writers, artists, editors, and publishers. Dale Messick (11 April 1906 – 5 April 2005) was one of the best female sequential artists in the industry. Ms. Messick broke the “glass ceiling” with her creation of the comic strip Brenda Starr: Reporter. This study examines the impact Dale Messick had on the comic industry, how being a woman affected her treatment within the industry, and how her work was perceived because of her gender.

“A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz”, over 40 artists celebrate the work of Charles M. Schulz. Edited by Shannon Watters, introduces the perspectives of many artists that have a founded appreciation for Schulz’s work. This source, similar to the first, imposes many perspectives, which is a value because it allows for the analysis and gets multiple opinions, which ties to the question because the question imposes the analysis of the impact the comic strip had on different people. Within the source, it also states the impact it has had on the artist and why. The different perspectives allow for the analysis to see what was more impactful, what reason recur, and the not so common reason for why they based their inspiration off of Schulz.

The first Planescape: Torment was discharged in 1999 to across the board basic approval. It won RPG of the Year from numerous outlets for its whimsical story, characters, and stunning soundtrack. From that point forward, a great many Planescape: Torment fans have appreciated investigating the bizarre and hazardous city of Sigil and encompassing planes through the Nameless One's eyes.

Being absence, for one day can't hurt, right? Which was important, his sister, or school? Of course Jazz was important to him. She had always helped him, take care of when mom and dad were in their own ghost haunting world. It wasn't as if he hated his sister. It was just...he didn't want her to get involved in his ghost haunting business and hurt her.

non-visualized space. Lefevre highlights how these concepts can, “[Make] a flat medium…suggest a three-dimensional space,” and that this “three-dimensional” space is necessary to make a great comic. The characters, locations and emotions can be seen clearly in the diegetic space, but what may be seen as “less important” in the extradiegetic space really creates the “world” the reader gets to step