Lit. of Comics Week 9 / A wide world of comics

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 many the weak of society like children, women, old people, LGBT, black peoples, homeless...

I don’t like his style because it looks so mad and it can trigger the people’s bad memory or feelings. If many people love his style and many drawings be created looks like his work, it definitely hurt the people. I know this world can’t be always beautiful but we know we have many other ways to express this problem and we have to know about reasonability and how to create responsible work.

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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 4 / Comic book

 I am really a fan of DC comics it does not become a long time and I did not read old issues but I don’t think all fans read every comic book. Because it re-launched regularly and the history of DC is more than 80 years. Every artists and writers’ explanation about each character are different and the story is very different every series. So if someone wants to start DC or Marvel comics, I want to recommend an easy way that just read and love by your interesting.  I like Trinity of justice league so I choose Superman for the first read. What I was surprising is he couldn’t fly at first series! He just can run fast. Personally, I can’t understand so why he has a cape. And he was wilder than now day’s Superman. He just beat a bad people without mercy. It is quite different with a superman what I loved but it was funny. The second was Batman, but he was not big different with now day’s Batman also Joker and Robin too. Recently I couldn’t read DC comics at all because I was so ...
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