Many people in the US are familiar with comic books and graphic novels, books or pieces of literature told with a sequence of illustrations that tell a story. As stated in our class, graphic novels and comics are different from just the regular picture book as picture books encourage readers to interpret scenes based on […]
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Graphic Novels Fall Victim to “Social Norms” too
I used to read all the time. My mom would get mad at me for staying up so late reading my book under the covers, pages illuminated by my book light (that she got me, so what did she expect), once I started I wanted to finish. I don’t feel that way about novels anymore, […]
Whose Comic Is It Anyway?
Piracy has long been an issue in almost every segment of the creative media production industry from film to music to comics. Of course, in the twentieth century this really only extended to as many physical copies as one person could make and sell to people they knew. Since the dawn of the internet, however, […]
From the Book to the Big Screen, the Dissonance of Comic Heroes
How Mad Lead to a Gold Mine
November 4, 2022 By wpilson Article, History Mad comics, politics, cartoons, celebrities Before artists developed their own style in cartoons, there were comic books. Comic books allowed artists to develop their own style and put it to print. Mad Magazines allowed artists to be experimental and craft their own stories using either existing characters […]
Superman Is Not An Overpowered Boy Scout, He’s THE Overpowered Boy Scout.
What can be said about the Last Son of Krypton that hasn’t already been said? We all already know everything about him, his origins, his secret identity, his powers, his supporting cast, his personality, etc. But lets think all of that over again, because, while we all already know these things, I feel like there’s […]
How to Break the 4th Wall
Breaking the 4th wall is such an interesting thing that any creative media can do. It’s always added to my enjoyment of something, and one of the best examples of breaking the 4th wall is Deadpool. He has a wide range of breaking the 4th wall, from turning and talking to the camera to referencing […]
Tie-In Comics and what they do
Something that I find interesting about some comics is how they relate to other media that are not necessarily comics themselves. Like, how a game such as Transformers: Fall of Cybertron can leave some loose ends unanswered or expand on potential ideas to create a new story that while it doesn’t change the entire outcome […]
Playing With Expectations: The Glass Scientists and Building Tension *spoilers ahead*
The Glass Scientists is a steam-punk comic that follows Dr. Henry Jekyll in his attempts to make mad science look reputable to the general London public. The comic is primarily a retelling of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. It also takes influence from a number of other […]