First Post

Welcome to my blog for LMST 340!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 7 - Maus

The Holocaust is never an easy subject to depict in any form of media (books, films, comics, etc). It's always bound to make people uncomfortable with its gruesome imagery and terrifying stories. Of all the Holocaust stories and films I've witnessed, I read one this week that definitely ranks among the top based around the subject. Art Spiegelman's 1980 graphic novel Maus is undoubtedly a masterpiece. A deeply personal and powerful tale of survival and the hardships of family. It tells the story of Spiegelman's father, Vladek, and his experience in/surviving the Holocaust. The story is told in interview format, including Vladek's question responses/story at the bottom of almost every panel. The narrative also goes back and forth between Vladek's past and the present day when Art is interviewing him. This was a great way to pause Vladek's experience in Auschwitz before getting too intense and for the audience to learn more about Art and Vladek's strain...
Read more

Assessment - The Killing Joke

1.) What is your reaction to the text you just read? As a Batman fan, I've sadly never read The Killing Joke before. It was very powerful and pretty disturbing. Each panel is exceptionally well drawn, the compositions are all stellar, and the story is very compelling (despite reading a while back that Alan Moore was very disappointed with this book). The most interesting part of the story was that it centered primarily on the Joker (the antagonist) more so than Batman (the hero). To see a monster character like the Joker be given a very human backstory (and very sad) was intriguing, given that the character's past was almost always a mystery. 2.) What connections did you make with the story that you read? Discuss the elements of the work with which you were able to connect. I was able to connect this story with Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight films and Tim Burton's 90's Batman movie. In Tim Burton's film, the Joker seemed to be the center of attention a...
Read more

Week 3 - The Comic Strip

This last week, I had the pleasure of looking through a whole bunch of comics, including the wondrous realms of Little Nemo, Peanuts, Krazy Kat, and Calvin and Hobbes . I have never read Little Nemo in Slumberland before in my life, but I can say that I was astounded by what I had come across. The comic is nothing short of beautiful, creative, and full of life. It shows us that the comic medium has absolutely no limits and each page I’m constantly asking myself what crazy new adventure are we going on. It also makes me a little jealous cause I feel like Little Nemo’s dreams are WAY cooler than my most recent dreams, especially the Walking Bed, the gigantic elephants, and the gravity-defying palace dream sequences (all from 1908). I grew up on classic Peanuts home videos and animated specials, but I’ve never actually sat down and fully read the comics. They were almost exactly like the videos, with one of the exceptions being that you could see Snoopy’s internal thoug...
Read more