Lit. of Comics Week 11 / comics as contemporary literature

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 imagination like fantasy history, myth... His illustration style was unique because each part is a little bit different. Sometimes he using rough style by pencil or using ink or synthesize with pictures. It was interesting and feel kinds of new style to me.

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Lit. of Comics Week 7/ Maus

 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
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Lit. of Comics, Week1 / The Arrival by Shaun Tan

“The Arrived by Shaun Tan” is a story about one man who leaves to a city for his family. It is famous as unique visual and impresses storytelling, however, surprisingly Characters of this book never use a word. As I search for this work, I recalled film work like Tom and Jerry, Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse. Even those works do not use word, the audience can know what they want and feel. But how people can understand the story without a word? I think it because of Body language communication. When we talk with someone, “word” is not the only way for communication. We read by his facial expression, acting, and gestures. For example, when we read the condition of babies and animals, we know what they want by body act. In the same way, this book makes an easy way for reading communication between characters by expressing like a storyboard. It showing clear acting step by step and express strong emotion and hands gesture. Also, the strange and unique mood of city conveys a feelin
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Lit. of Comics Week 8 / Stereotype and the ethics of representation

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
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