Literature of Comics

Here are the notes I took while I was reading House of Haunts ! -Scrooge mcduck goes in his money bin -R-day? Moves his money in prep -moves his money elaborately into catacombs -r day comes -robbers day -beagle boys study in jail -the beagle boys leave school and prepare the heist of scrooges money bin - they use their smarts to try to break into the bin they find that there is no money -scrooge laughs at their lausey attempts -the wallow in their failures when one boy decides that they should follow scrooge -they follow scrooge thru his day - proceeds thru multiple days - scrooge wants to his money and tries to leave but gets locked in a closet - the beagle boys feed a saw into the closet window. -scrooge escapes - the chemistry major sprays a glowing serum on scrooge as he darts past to see his money - scrooge leads them right to his money -they smack him and scrooge forgets what happens and finds himself in a different location - the bo...

What I observed from the Peanuts comics, cerca 1952, was that the characters that we know and love today are drastically different from the way they were originally in the 1950’s. In the 50’s the Peanuts gang were toddlers, instead of elementary school kids, playing with blocks and practically never leaving their home. Also visually the character designs are different. The characters have much larger heads than anticipated, probably to make them look more like toddlers, and their pupils increased in size as well. Another defining element that makes the Peanuts , the Peanuts is the first panel, which shows the title in the middle of the scene, but the characters interact like nothing is there and continue their action. Tarzan is a comic that is one of a  kind, a comic that continued the previous storyline with the next issue, keeping the story consistent, for that time a consistent story each week was not as frequent as we see today. The stories do lack substance because he doe...

Let’s talk about Scott McCloud shall we. Scott McCloud was a modern comic visionary in his day, of the late nineties through the early two-thousands. He made it his goal to make comics understandable to all who use the medium, to utilize the art of the comic to the best to a person’s extent. One key element that he brings to light and emphasizes is the important use of iconography, using images to explain an ideas, which is essential to basic comic storytelling. McCloud argues the idea that the more simplistic an image the easier it is to be taken out of one's life and to be transported into the comic. When the image is so simplistic the image in question could have many meanings, its fluid. While the more realistic an image is the reader focuses on the features and details rather than being involved in the story. There’s also an argument that more a simplistic an image and the more fantastical the plot is the more the audience believes in the situation. He also explains the c...