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Week12: Ms. Marvel vol.1,2 1. What is your reaction to the text you just read? Really nice. This comic book is dealing with Teenagers and cultural problems...by setting the main character as Pakistan girl. It is important and serious subject can't see lightly and I think comics are a really good method to access the problem. Because comics have a friendly image of many people. This is a problem really exist in today and this is a daily-life to someone so it needs to be visualized as many as possible. 2.What connection did you make with the story? Discuss the elements of the work with which you were able to connect. As everyone knows, we need more hero who represents minorities in society. Especially in my case, I need more woman hero because I don't have any role model as a hero until I grown up. So I can surely Ms. Marvel have some connection with me. I could emphasize her emotion and a way of thinking when she has trouble with family, friends, society. Because of cou

Week 11: Tale of One Bad Rat / Alice in Sunderland At this week, I think comics of the list have a pretty heavy mood. In the first work, a lonely homeless girl is the main character and the story is what happened to her and past memories. I feel it a little bit similar to “The Blanket”. Two both character had bad childhood memories and they suffered continued into an adult. The story flows with their emotion and mental image as the center and some time author express it by illusion. Also, they both have a symbol of trauma like a rat or a blanket. But the different thing is the boy of “The blanket” get many friends who can help him at the end. In another aspect, the author of “Tale of One Bad Rat” depict facial express greatly. I can feel a stream of her emotion only by face illustration.  In the second, actually, it was quite abstract to me so I can’t sure what I understood is correct. The main story is having a study of Lewis Carroll and Sunderland. There are a bunch of imaginat

Battle Angel Alita “Last Order” Globally many people love Manga, the Japanese comics and it includes my family. I’ve lived in the country beside of Japan so I don’t think it is weird, also Anime and Manga have different strong charming to compare with US comics and animation. I knew Battle Angel is famous and the story mood is quite serious and the story represents about the pain of war. Many cyborg style manga of 20th century describe the war and have a negative view of next century. So I though Battle Angel also have same contents and I didn’t read it. Because I’m already read Ghost in the Shell, Evangelion, The Galaxy Express 999. So it was good chance to read. I really wondered why 20th centuries Japan made a lot of dystopia work. I heard that is the scar from II World war. They felt destroy of daily, family, country, people’s hope and they express the feelings through artistic work. “The Last Order” is the last series of Battle Angel, I couldn’t understand

MOXNOX- Joan Cornella This book is… something uncomfortable collection of gag illustration. Vivid color, lovely smiled characters, simple cartoon style but contents is really cruel and terrible. I couldn’t get some clear thinking about this illustrator. Is it satirical cartoon? Or just he is naïve? So I need to find some explanation about his work but surprisingly there are not certain comments of Joan himself except he just inspired by advertisements. People accept his work by various view perspective. It means, there are still criticism war between reviewer. Some of them claim it is just Joan’s ghoulish attracting public attention. Actually he got a lot of attention from SNS. Fashionable and visible painting style, a stimulant content are support to their opinion enough. But some of them contend this is black comedy toward society and represent people’s inner disgusting side. Personally I got bad feelings from his work I want to take the latter side. His illustration attacks m

What is your opinion about the use of stereotype in comics, animation and gaming narrative? Is stereotyping ultimately a necessary strategy in character design and representation?  Do you think you have personally been affected by stereotypical representations? What is your opinion about the use of stereotype in comics, animation and gaming narrative? Is stereotyping ultimately a necessary strategy in character design and representation?  Do you think you have personally been affected by stereotypical representations? Personally, I have optimistic view of using stereotype but if it affects harmful to specific people, I strongly think it has to be changed. There are many meaning about “Stereotype”, for example like a Specific view of general people, an Average image of something or Bias. People have a general image when they special object and it makes. Depending on how many people know and the way of how people accept, the form has clear shape and it can be changed.  Gener

 I read once this book when I was in high school with watching film named “The boy in the striped pajamas”,” Life is beautiful” and book named “The Diary of Anne Frank”. I am sure most of the people on earth know about the Holocaust. As one of them, I am educated about Nazi too. “Maus” is written by Art Spiegelman but the main character is his parents and another family who suffered from Nazi. Before I start, I really cared about choosing a word and I don’t want to describe this tragic by the wrong way so I hope your patient and understand if I do a mistake. “Maus” is cross directed by 2 types of time. Past and Present. And the story is separated 2 parts. In the first story, Vladek avoids Nazi at Poland with his family, and in the second part, he goes through Auschwitz. For an escape from Nazi, he offers everything he had and in the cold jail, he did everything that he can do for surviving. He lost most of his family by improper reasons like old age or have too many children. The tragi