At the University of Mary Washington
Boundless was an interesting comic to read because of its episodic nature. It was so different from everything else we’ve read in that all the different stories stood on their own instead of being interconnected (although style and similar content remained consistent throughout.) This reminded me a bit of A Contract With God due to […]
For class today, we began reading Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. This comic has a lot of controversy behind it, and there has been a lot of critique by others who have categorized it as a “pornographic” piece. It is interesting to me that the sex scenes of this comic, as well as the blunt […]
Before entering this class, I had very little knowledge on what exactly graphic novels were – I thought they were simply images with text used to tell a story. I was always under the impression that the text and images were separate entities from one another – that they stood alone and were meant to […]
Prior to taking this class, I had very little experience with graphic novels. I grew up reading silly comics such as Garfield, or Calvin and Hobbes, but I never read any “serious” comics or graphic novels. From what we have read so far in this class, I can definitely say (in a good way) that […]