Reinventing Comics

Today, images surround us, and they can have a bigger interaction between their viewers than may be assumed. In Scott McCloud’s book, “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art”, he relays the concept of simplification, and how to use it to bring more emphasis to the meaning of the drawing. In other words, McCloud is saying that through a process of breaking down a drawing to its rawest and most simplistic form, the piece itself becomes deeper in meaning. When looking at a finished image it should

fiction stories, and historical accounts. The graphic novel Yossel tells the story of a young Jewish boy named Yossel who grew up in Poland in the early 1940’s. He spends most of his days drawing superheroes and aspiring to become the illustrator for a comic book company in the future. However, one day in Poland the Nazi’s arrive to bring his world of dreams to a sudden halt. Yossel’s entire family is taken to the Warsaw ghetto where he draws pictures to entertain the guards.

Understanding Comics, he found an interesting theory of how art and words evolved over time. Before, art and words easily went hand in hand, but as time progressed, art slowly grew apart from words and now, each component is evolving into its own category (McCloud 145-146). Even though some comics demonstrated this theory, words and art still created an extraordinary combination and made a huge impact in the literature world. Incognegro, written by Mat Johnson, is a historical comic based on the 1930’s

idea behind ‘comics’ or ‘graphic novels’ continued to develop. The subject of these graphics range from early humans attempting to communicate information about animal migration patterns painted on the walls of caves, to mythological stories painted onto the surface of pottery. These images are made to be informative, or entertaining, but in general fail to deliver a message that moves beyond the delivery of information, and between good and bad. In both pre and post-World War II comic books failed

been reading comics for more than 50 years, ever since she learned to read. She earned her B.A. (1977) and M.L.S. (1981) at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. She has worked as a children's and then a young adult librarian for public libraries in Hawaii and Indiana, and she is now a part-time librarian in a PreK though gr. 8 school in the Florida Panhandle. Kat chaired the YALSA task force that created the Great Graphic Novels for Teens List, and she has edited Graphic Novels and Comic Books published

With this film all the characters are completely different and make their statement which comes from its comic book influence. Against all of the dull tones throughout the film they’re usually wearing dark/middle tonal clothing. Then the snow covered setting also helps stand out with Ramona’s bright hair and her darkish mood. It starts off with Ramona’s hair

The book, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, is the second book in the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley. The basic storyline consists of the main character, Scott Pilgrim, fighting for the love of his new girlfriend, Ramona Flowers. Scott is an unemployed 23 year old that plays in a band called ‘Sex Bob Omb’ from Canada. Ramona is an American, newly moved to Canada, that works for Amazon.ca. Scott must fight all seven of Ramona’s ex-boyfriends so they can continue dating. (This

going on and allows me to metaphorically put myself in the story. The main problem with The Things They Carried is that it is just like every other book I have ever read. Before reading Invisible People, I had never even thought about picking up a comic book, or any form of graphic novel. To my surprise, I had a lot of fun interpreting the story line while I analyzed the well-thought out illustrations. The Things They Carried is an in-depth novel depicting life, love, death and war. Although it contains

Comics, since their conception, have been seen as an immature media that is strictly pop culture without the ability to pass substantive messages. However, the quantities of people who read and share comic books provide open pathway to idea sharing. The Legend of Chun Hyang I is an example of this cultural messaging through this medium. Written in 1992, as Asian cultures were joining the globalizing world, this manga represented cultural hybridity as a Korean folktale being represented by a Japanese

Partlow IV My third sociological concept is known as a gesture which relates to the Comic Monstore because it was a way for me to build a mutual trust with the customers while helping them. I would say to them, “hello, how are you doing? If you need any help, let me know”, while shaking their hand to let them know I do care as a volunteer. That was my way of communication with the customers. A gesture is a way in which people communicate with each other using body motion (Henslin, 2017). Gesture