Sydnie's Blog

For this week's reading, it was honestly kind of rough to get through only because of the subject matter and how heavy it was at times and it was the same for the film we watched in class. Personally when I read if the writing/visuals are good then I can feel what the characters I'm reading about are or might have been feeling. Since both the reading and film were very raw and straight forward it hit me kind of hard in some moments to see the effect of tragedies on some characters.             I had previously read Maus in high school so it was like a refresher on the graphic novel and that way I kind of already knew what was coming so it didn’t have that shock factor that I had the first time around reading it. Even though I wasn’t shocked at what happened it still hit hard because I am well aware that the events from the novel actually happened and that they effected so many people and how much suffering some people had to go through.  My grandma on my dad’s side was act

Oh boy, where to begin with this blog post. The underground comics are certainly something. I think I read the most out of the Tits and Clits comics because I thought it’d be pretty funny and I think it was. When it comes to crude things people can either be uncomfortable or find it amusing or maybe a mix of both?              I thought it was funny how extreme some bits of the comics got like the dildo covers for each type of woman out there because I think there are real things out in the world that people buy that are wild and most people would think do people actually use that?! Or like you’ll see this crazy ad saying its like a cooking gadget but really it’s a sexual device of some sort. It just reminded me of things like that and it made me laugh a bit.             I did find it interesting thought that throughout the comic there were quite a few different styles page to page. Most of the pages were in black and white but then you’d get a few that had color which was a nice

For this week’s readings I took Eisner's  Dropsie Avenue  and compared it to Thompson's  Blankets  and  Doot Doot Garden.  I ended up reading them and the flipping to and from each to compare them style-wise. I think what caught my attention most was the dynamic use of positive and negative spacing with the black and white. In both comics there was a lot of the same hatching style and really cool use of the negative spaces to either put text on or just to emphasize a particular scene.              I noticed that in  Dropsie Avenue  there was a lot of play with not having boarders for panels and it was more implied rather than constrained by an outline of the image of a particular scene. I think it was really clever to do the comics in this way because it was different than the others I had seen when comparing the two works. With  Blankets  it was mostly outlined but sometimes the negative space would create its own boarder and then fade out to no boarder around a blank, whit

It's really interesting to see the difference between when comics were first starting out to where they are now. With this week's comics it's clear to see that there was a much bigger emphasis on the text used with the images within the panels. I read a little bit of the Airboy comics and there weren't hardly any panels that didn't have text to go along with it. It was also interesting to see the difference in how comics had color applied to them. With these comics it seemed stamp like and so sometimes not everything would match up perfectly so there would be some instances where the colors were out of the lines that they were intended to be in. I liked that some of the words were in bold type because they just read differently in my opinion. I like comics like this where your mind just automatically thinks up what certain things are making certain sounds like in one page the barn is set on fire and my brain just automatically thought of crackling fire sounds and wh

For this weeks reading I did a little bit of everything (i.e.  Little Nemo ,  Peanuts, and Krazy Kat ). I personally gravitated towards reading more  Little Nemo  purely based on the feeling it gave me. I really liked the composition of the panels and the color schemes. For awhile I was struggling to read the text on them and then I realized there was a button to click to get the high resolution version and that definitely made life a whole lot easier after that.  I liked that the panels weren’t all the same and that some were really long and sometimes they were really narrow and portrait instead of being landscape. I think one of my favorites was the one with the forest that he couldn’t touch which he ended up doing and the panel where the forest was all falling down was so cool looking to me with the perspective and the long narrow panel. I also really enjoyed the color scheme because it had a very vintage feel to it but also dreamlike which makes sense because all of them are abo