Essays on Comics

Scott McCloud book, Understanding comics: The Invisible Art uses symbols and concepts like human reflection. Often, artists recognize these concepts, blend this creation of symbols, simple or distinct, to invoke different feelings and reactions within the readers and to deliver certain messages and emotion to the audience. McCloud makes the reader an active partaker within the comics and to create own realism based on own visions and ideas. Arguably, when taking the images, symbols, icons, and drawings and putting them in a picture, language and reality, differentiating them from abstract, the realism, and considering all icons/images that fall between,

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Typically when we think of comics we think of children. Their excitement mounts as superheroes defeat villains or save damsels in distress. Comic books are one dimensional and transparent with little to offer the adult world other than nostalgia. Or is there something more to them? It would be difficult for the average person to open a comic book and understand that there are a multitude of communication devices at work on the vibrant pages of Batman or X-Men. It would be equally difficult to ponder of comic books were actually more relatable because they were drawn as cartoons,

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SECTION 1:

1.2) Genre analysis: Consider the role of genre in understanding comics and manga. Compare comics from two different genres and discuss your results. You might find the reading by Coogan (posted on the course readings page on Desire2learn) useful in your answer. The genre analysis handout, which you might find helpful, is posted to the Desire2Learn exam materials page. 
Comics are considered as a genre of reading materials accompanied by distinct imagery that is presented in a form of conversation between the characters through the use of conversation balloons. Emotions and presentation of distinct human element in each comic

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1. I read Akira Vol. 1 by writer and illustrated Katsuhiro Otomo. I borrowed a copy of the version published by Dark Horse Comics in 2000. The series was first published, however, during the 1980s in Japan.
2. I selected this specific issue because it introduces the readers to the interesting world created by Otomo. When I started reading Akira, the story immediately grabbed my attention because of intriguing story and the interesting characters. Moreover, the idea of a post-apocalyptic Japan was both stimulating and daunting.
3. Otomo worked on Akira. What I like best about the illustrations is

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Spider-man is a fictional character, which firstly appeared in comic book as the super hero that saves city citizens from evil and cruel anti-heroes. This idea came up to Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. There were no such comics as Spider-man in 1962, but he has been shown in Amazing Fantasy (cover-dated Aug. 1962) comic book. This fresh idea became a revolution in comics; people loved it. Kids waited in line-ups to get a new, just published comic book with another story that happened to our hero. As we look through comics, we can see that this series can

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History of Developing Manga

Isao Shimizu, author of ‘the history of Manga’ / ‘Manga no Rekishi’, cites drawings from the 12th and 13th century as the first manga texts. Today manga is part of the pop culture in Japan and the world over. It comprises of story-driven narratives (usually a complete novel-like work of an author), composed with stylized illustrations, flexible use of linguistic text (onomatopoeic and spoken) and discursive frames. It uses visual designs manipulated to function as iconographic. Manga has identifiable vocabularies and registers temporal spatial relationships into the characters in the narration to give them multiple voices, personalities and mental

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Children’s Literature has often been ignored by the academic world, especially when it is examined strictly on its content matter. The level of sophistication, as a story and as a study, is questioned especially when pitted against criticisms that do not take into account the structure of children’s stories. A narratological approach may be a way to elevate the reception of Children’s Literature study and also give a deeper understanding of the story at hand. Before going on, perhaps it would be wise to understand what the term “narratology” means. Narratology refers to the branch of

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Who is an ordinary person? This is a question that has numerous answers depending on various circumstances. Some of the conditions may include; the environment, the culture that surrounds the individual or what the person or society at large has been led to believe by their doctrines and each other’s expectation. One of the many definitions of an ordinary person is a person who often settles for expectations of the society and does whatever it takes for that approval. They put their wishes and desires aside fearing that changes may occur. They settle for less than what they

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