Literature of Comics and Graphic Narrative

 I liked this comic a lot. The illustrations were amazing! Everything was so consistent. The quality of line work, values, even the proportions of the characters stayed true to the model which I found very impressive. I liked seeing the characters who were all cats, act like they were folks from the Great Gatsby. The time period was so stylish and rebellious with the underground speakeasies happening and the gangster type groups of people doing crazy things. The story was really cool and I liked it even more just because of the art honestly The way the characters interacted with each other was kind of sassy which I thought was fun. It also coincides with the fact that they're all cats. I think of cats as sassy creatures who are independent and don't care about much. They have nine lives anyway. They shouldn't worry. In that sense, I think cats were a good choice for telling this story without using actual humans. From my perspective, I would assume that this story, or at le

This comic made me see some reoccurring trends in comics by women. It seems to be a pattern, in my experience, that the characters' reactions to things are over-exaggerated. this kind of brings me out of the story because I can't relate to the unrealistic way they communicate with each other. I'm not saying this is bad necessarily, but I think a great level of sophistication is simply wiped out in these stories because I felt like I was just reading about the character's life day by day. The topics of the day by day pacing of the story, almost always include something about being gay or something sexual. These moments were squeezed into the story where they didn't really belong. It was nice and silly to see those things happening but I didn't see a true purpose for so many of those moments. I didn't really see a strong plot in these comics. At some points, it seemed a little bit random but in a way that wasn't so exciting. For example, The Sandman is a n

 Watchmen totally changes the normal view of the general idea of superheroes. It was like an alternative reality if certain things were to change in the line of history when president Nixon was president. In the story, the world is really close to having a nuclear war that will destroy humanity. The famous image of the couple kissing after we had won the war, becomes a lesbian couple in Watchmen. In the story, that time period was dealing with a gay movement much sooner than in our reality. This was really cool to see, but also jarring in a way because something just feels wrong about the overall state of the people's minds and the world in the comic and in the film. I watched the film and I noticed it was pretty accurate to the comic. This story strongly reminds me of "The Boys" which started as a graphic novel but was turned into a show. I've watched it recently and it also plays on the whole idea of superheroes being not all that good. There's something scary a

 I really love the artist and the work in this book. One of my favorite artists is Nell Brinkley. So many others love her work too and it's hard to ignore that she has done something unique in the illustration I just love the way she draws women with such attitude through wild golden curly locks of hair and graceful expressions. I think there is a lot of movement in her brushstrokes. She uses ink often in her drawings and the line quality she achieves is beautiful. The images are very clear but they are really designed in a nice way by leaving certain spots on her figures a more simplified value and adding more detail in the area of the focal points. the images almost give me a sense that she completed them quickly and with a free way of thinking because some linework I've seen before is always very structured and perfect. In Brinkley's work, we get the opposite. It's so nicely done that we don't worry about any messy lines in the picture because we become more inte

 I was excited to see that Lumberjanes was on the book list for this week. I own a copy myself, but I haven't read it yet! Sometimes I go to the book store to get a couple of graphic novels and then I wait a while to read them. I was happy to be able to read them in this class, but I was a bit disappointed. My first impression of the books was sort of an action-adventure, maybe with some serious trouble more like the show Gravity Falls but with scouts instead. After reading the first couple of issues, I was noticing that the characters did go on some cool adventures, but there were no consequences for the characters at all. Every obstacle they faced, they were able to overcome it with no prior knowledge as to how to accomplish the tasks they were doing. I felt like the characters all had similar personalities too. And since they were basically invincible, I got bored in the times of the stories that I was supposed to be intrigued by. The dialogue I have to say was a bit...silly. So

 I read the Sandman the Doll's House. I chose the title because I knew that Sandman was about the dream world, and I have reoccurring dreams about dollhouses so I was curious. The entire Sandman series as a whole, however, is just beautiful. The story is so wonderfully written by Neil Gaiman that I don't think there has been anything like it since. The Sandman is such an awesome masterpiece. The topic of dreams is expressed so beautifully in the concept alone with having these interchanging worlds all existing at once. The story feels like your traveling through different dimensions. One transition I found to be really impressive was the early point in the story when Rose and her mom are riding in a car to their destination and Rose begins to drift off in the backseat. The panels around her started to spread apart and tilt completely sideways leading us into her dream she was having on the next page. This is then where we see the sandman talking with Lucien. What's interest