Comic strip Essays

How do you think a trend gets to be so popular among youths? Is there a cycle that every trend goes through? John Backderf, also known as Derf, introduces a comic strip by the title of “The City.” In the comic strip, Derf describes a trend and the cycle it takes for the fad to become so popular among a certain group of people and finally come to an end. It explains the stages a ridiculous fad goes through, from where and who may have started it, how it becomes so popular that everyone is doing, and

Homelessness is the condition of people living on the streets without a shelter. Grand Concourse, a play by Heidi Shreck, portrays this condition through Frog, a character with the most hilariously terrible jokes out there. Frog, who suffers from alcoholism and mental illness, is a daily homeless dinner at the Bronx soup kitchen. Although Frog is the one who represents the suffering and hopelessness of homeless people attending the soup kitchen, he never gets pessimistic or miserable. Instead, he

Nobody is capable of changing the past. A person’s mistakes and the pain that they inflict on other people are permanent and irreversible. The potential to repair the damage lies by changing the future, not the past. Many characters in William Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, realize their mistakes by suffering, and attempt to correct them through good deeds. Lear’s experience with poverty helps him recognize his misconception of love and accept Cordelia’s forgiveness. Gloucester’s loss of sight

like journals, novels, comics, graphic novels, and so on. Authors invent stories in many types from one plot to make more attraction for all ages of audiences. For example, “The Story of the Three Bears” and “Silver-Hair and the Three Xairs” are two types of stories, which come from one plot. I read both of them and received a lot of interesting things and different feelings for each. To me, comic version is more entertaining in format and structures than the original one. Comic uses colors, cartoon

Abstract Cartoon sketches are usually meant to be designated for children. Theodore Seuss Geisel, the illustrator of the cat in the hat, used Dr.Seuss as his pen name. He’s one of the most famous cartoonists; he did not only target children but also adults through simple cartoons that held deep meanings behind. He also wrote many books that were translated later on into different languages. He first started his career by working for a magazine and drawing ads for a pesticide company. He kept writing

would you feel if you where called names constantly and made fun of your physical features? This is what Junior has to go though every day on the reservation and at school. How does he handle all of this criticism? He draws comics about his daily experiences. By drawing this comics, it helps him release all of his different emotions onto paper, and teaches him to learn self-acceptance and all of the ups and in life. To start off, Junior is a teenage boy living on an indian reservation in Washington

Political cartoons, similar to speeches and essays, all have a subject, an author or in some cases an illustrator, and of course an audience. They often appeal to rhetoric devices such as, ethos, logos, and pathos. These rhetoric devices appeal to a specific category, ethos is the author or illustrator, while logos is the subject, and pathos appeals to the audience. The political cartoon is our President, Barrack Obama, holding a poster of the Pope. In this image, Obama is smiling and says, “Thought

in the movies and literature, you cannot tell me that it would not disturb a normal person.” In our days graphic novels became so violent that they cannot be demonstrated to the kids. The comic book “Legends of the Dark Knight” that written by the author named Chuck Dixon shows the great examples why the comic books should not be presented to the children. In this book author tells us how Batman violently defeats the irresistible beast. Batman kills the beast because of his horrible reprise of all

Political Cartoons allow cartoonists to graphically comment on controversial political issues and events in society. As an abundance of these cartoons are purposely illustrated in a humorous manner, their focal purpose is not to only amuse but to persuade, ensuring the impression conveyed by the cartoonist, challenging the audiences’ perception on the issue presented. David Rowe’s cartoon, which appeared in the Australian Financial Review magazine on November 10th 2013, condemns the Tony Abbott Government’s

deep connection to materialistic objects, such as the Anja’s diaries and the exercise bike, in order to cope with their unsolved past struggles, as depicted by the body language, facial expressions, and actions of the characters throughout the comic strips. Anja experienced a great deal of tragedy and sadness throughout her life during and continued to haunt her life after the war. To deal with the emotional trauma, Anja would write down her story and her perspective on the war when

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm popularly known as the “Grimms Brothers”, were characterized as one of the most dramatic writers in the 19th century. They were categorized by their short, simple sentences, colloquial language, and their well-organized approach to craft writings. Their writing was entitled Little Snow White, it was released in 1937 and it was about Snow White, a princess who falls into a deep, death-like rest after taking a bite from a poisoned apple. My impression about this narrative was

Revised fairy tales are becoming increasingly important in today’s world as there is a great need for producers and writers to alter traditional feminine values viewed in these tales. These alterations are needed in order to correspond to the changing demands and tastes of audiences in today’s society. Original fairy tales tend to perpetuate patriarchal values by placing stereotypical traits on both the male and female roles. “Snow White” has been one of the major fairy tales that have been criticized

In article "What Kinds of Kids Read Comics?", the author Kat Kan discussed several kinds of kids like to read comics. Kat Kan is a librarian for long time and different places, and she has many experience about kids like to read comics and graphic novel. Kat Kan said that all kids and many adults read comics about superhero. She considered every kind of kids like read comics and gave some example to proof that. Kan mention six kinds of kids—— eager readers, her two sons, ESL learner, struggling kids

The Balance of “Show and Tell” Comic books are often regarded as unique. With the addition of pictures into text, they require the reader to be not just a reader, but a viewer as well. In his graphic essay, “Show and Tell,” comic book artist Scott McCloud questions what really makes a comic book come to life. Written as part of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1993), this brief section points out that a balance of both words and pictures is the answer. McCloud literally and figuratively

Are Comics just for Kids? What do you think of comics? Are they just pure fiction with no real story and static characters? In the graphic essay Show and Tell the author Scott McCloud introduces the reader to the true world of comic books. He brings up big questions on what we consider art and how comic books use many forms and shape to create the same effect a novel would. Through the ingenious text and the captivating drawn out figures, McCloud proves that comics are not just for kids and

The Balance of “Show and Tell” Comic books are often regarded as unique. With the addition of pictures into text, they require the reader to be not just a reader, but a viewer as well. In his graphic essay, “Show and Tell,” comic book artist Scott McCloud questions what really makes a comic book come to life. Written as part of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1993), this brief section points out that a balance of both words and pictures is the answer. McCloud literally and figuratively

been used as a protection for himself. When he goes to the doctors after being hit by a truck, the sweater is still being worn by him. Superman seemed to be invincible and Jimmy kept those ideals which was reflected by his sweater. Jimmy goes to the comic book convention and seems to be obsessed with seeing his number one hero, superman. This scene brings out the true child in Jimmy as he looks for

Understanding Comics By: Scott McCloud Scott McCloud’s analyses of comics in the form of a comic/visual novel in his “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art” is an excellent way of conveying and identifying the medium to new and old comic readers and anyone who is interested in the medium. McCloud’s extensive knowledge of art and how it conforms to comics can be summed up in this quote: “Understanding comics is serious business” (p. 197). McCloud takes an in-depth visual look at how comics came to be

In Douglas Wolk’s book “Reading Comics”, Wolk gives an incredible insight on how comic books and comic book readers are portrayed in today’s culture. Wolk’s passion for comic books and the artistic aspect of them are the reasoning for him to write “Reading Comics”. Wolk states “Reading comics, or not reading them, often presents itself as taking some kind of stand; in picking up something with words and pictures to read you become the sort of person who reads comics, and that can be a badge of pride

The particular page I would like to focus on for my close reading is page 21 in Volume 8 (Appendix I) and is a stellar example of the way that specific tools of narration can be used for a larger effect within comics in way that it cannot be utilized within the confines of a traditional print novel by showing us the thoughts of several characters at once. It also supports the idea, not talked about above but soon to be talked about, of Suzie as an “unreliable narrator” by demonstrating that there