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. 
Generally, as creator, people like to use a stereotype for an audience and themselves. Stereotype makes narrative easy to understand at once and it simplifies a process of making because don’t have to direct the object on purpose. When you imagine “A dog”, definitely there is some image that comes to mind and it will similar to other people. 
However, the problem is even the image become known incorrect or the perspective be changed to bias, some of the people still use or not change their mind and it can be pressure to some people. For example, when a creator wants to represent a woman, generally drawing long hair, makeup face, beautiful body line, wearing a skirt. It has a possibility of becoming a standard of women’s image that all females have to be. Actually, this is a real problem being currently underway.
Like the video: Born Sexy Yesterday, if creator often uses repertoire, it can be a stereotype of a woman even it is not fact.

Definitely, there is good side of defining Stereotype and sometimes it is necessary but before making something or enjoy media, we have to get a social education a bias.

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Lit. of Comics Week 13 / the future of comics

Week13: Freak angels In my country, most of the comic’s industry moves with webcomics market as a center because it is so popular among young people. We have a bunch of huge company and author for only webcomics. Sometimes it becomes movie or drama or musical. People access webcomics easier than book comics by their phone or laptop and as people know, it is more economical than paper and pen. I’m sure this is one of great asset and definitely, webcomic market has strong potential. But the flaw is most of comics are weekly serial comics so it was hard to know every story of “Freak Angels”. This comic is started in 2008, so, unfortunately, I couldn’t read all. But the Apocalyptic style was good also I felt steampunk style. The story is about some people who help society with their special abilities like telepathy, pyrokinesis. People called them “Freakangels”. The background is can be depressing but the contents are really interesting and give some subject to think about “Human”.
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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 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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