Webcomic Essays

Scott McCloud talks profusely about this peculiarity, unique to the cartooned figure, in his book Understanding Comics. By introducing the concept of “amplification through simplification” (McCloud 30), McCloud suggests that the abstraction of an image through cartooning strips it down to its essential meaning, amplifying it beyond the possibilities of realistic art. As a consequence, the cartoon becomes universal, to the point of allowing any viewer to identify him or herself with it: the cartoon

School is madness for student! Like all of us as kids, Jimmy was just trying to make it through high school. But little did he know that a great quantity of things were soon to change very quickly for him in many different ways. He did not know at the time, but soon enough he would be making comics for his hometown and meeting new friends along the way. Some ups and down are soon to come but as you get to know Jimmy, you will soon understand it may have happened to just the right person. The Dumbest

Literature: Interpretive or Concrete As they grow up, children learn language through the combination of both words and pictures, which paints an image in their mind. The association of words to picture and vice versa is interchangeable as long as the message you are trying to portray is clear. As time passes by and a child’s comprehension of his language advances, society tells that child that his favorite works of literature are frowned upon, just because they have pictures in them. The use

The Adventures of Jonas, created by Jonas McCluggage, is one of a subset of contemporary autobiographical webcomics characterised by their diary format and by having creators entering or emerging from young-adulthood as artists or aspiring artists. Other notable examples include Johnny Wander (started by Ananth Hirsch and Yuko Ota 2008) and DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary (started by Erika Moen in 2003). While comics studies is a relatively underdeveloped field (Freedman 28), significant

of James Fort (later referred to as he settlement of James town) on an island in the James River, which flows into the mouth of the Chesapeake.” - (Article: 17th Century Colonisation of the Chesapeake Area - Smithsonian’s The Secret in the Cellar Webcomic, February 2009 -

Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society. The most common pop culture categories are: entertainment, sports, news, politics, fashion/clothes,

Although the digital gaming industry is in continuous growth, with an increasing number of gamers around the world, females and males, playing videogames remains a gendered practice (Hayes, 2005) and the video games industry itself does not seem to grow as a more gender-inclusive environment (Chess & Shaw, 2015). According to Mia Consalvo, Canadian researcher in Game studies, in the early 2000’s, it was still a news to the mainstream press that women played games as well as men. Nonetheless, the

One Punch Man is awesome. The animation is great, the destructive scale of Saitama's power is beautiful, and the parody is solidly delivered. The second is a little harder; Saitama doesn't automatically win. He's never beat King, an opponent in the webcomic defeats him solely because he can't fly, and he will never get that god-damned bug. And this is OK. It's better than OK, it's GREAT. Saitama is a parody character that exists both to lampoon the overpowered characters in other anime, and to show

something that’s easy to market & also something that’s very relatable too. Love has been around for thousands and thousands of years and something like loving someone when you know you shouldn’t isn’t something new at all. Books, movies, TV shows, webcomics, and more still have this as their main plot and conflict in the story because it’s what people want to see & it’s what people experience in their everyday lives. With topics of love, violence, conflict and more and with themes of running away and

in his career that he transitioned to writing children's books. Following his graduation from college, Kinney ventured into the world of online game development. He was learning many different skills and developing different passions. He created a webcomic titled "Igdoof," which featured a character named Greg Hefley, a known character in the iconic "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series. Despite the comic's moderate success, Kinney faced tons of rejections from publishers when he attempted to turn "Igdoof"