Review on Under ground comics - Air Pirate funnies

When I first heard about underground comics, I was unclear as to what I was going to expect. I suspected that these comics, may have crude humor, and may involve some political humor that may have been not allowed in the mainstream comics. After reading Air Pirate funnies scripts, my initial reaction was that I was in a complete disarray, because I had never realized that comics could have such crude humor and nudity that would involve sex.  However, once I got over the initial stage, I realized that  it was a parody on Disney. Which actually made sense, however, I had never realized that I would be seeing Mickey mouse and Minnie mouse having sex.  It makes sense to me as  to why these  comics were considered underground comics. The main reason being that they were inappropriate for young boys and girls to read, and other being that since they were using lots of Disney characters, the authors and the illustrators would get in trouble for the copy right infringement. Having said that, reading the Air Pirate funnies, I would say the format of the comic reminds me of how we have the format of cartoons on Tv.  For example, when we watch cartoons on tv, we see different or same shows on repeat, until the new episode comes out and the filler shows of the main program is clustered with other random shoes before the main show can continue, in a similar manner, the way, the comic was arranged was, few strips of Dirty Duck, then in the middle the main attraction and  then again couple of strips of dirty duck ( like an interval), and then the continuation of the main story strip.  I think the most people would be offended by this comics, because of its crude humor and parody of everyone’s childhood icons, however, once we move on and get into a script, and story, I feel that this was a well done story arc. It is, humorous to read such parodies where the illustrators and writers take stance on perverts of guys who are horny, example where the bugs the bug had to lick 50 clits( which in my opinion, I kind of felt sorry for the poor guy) , after he left the girl he liked cause she was going out with a man she just met, and well this comic in general, I think pick on the issue of either guys being insecure, or cheating girlfriends. It definitely plays on the belief how young adults have these days, that once you loose your virginity, your life will change attitude.  And of course its made pretty obvious by the end of the book, that this is created intentionally, to troll teachers and people who feel uncomfortable talking about sex. Because towards the end, its had a poster of Donald duck and his 3 nephews where one of the nephew is giving Donald the comic ( I think it was confiscated and Donald’s reactions being caught off guard, its states in this page ” You can be sure its disapproved! Teachers hate it! Kids love it!. So basically its made for teens/young adults who are curious about sex.

review on Elsiner's comic - Contract with god

When you first read the comic Contract with god by Will Eisner, there’s quite a noticeable difference between his work in compared to what we have seen so far in my Literature in Comic class. At a first glance one can actually see the quality of the drawings made in this comic “ Contract with god” are very well thought out and the way each and every page of a the comic is presented feels more like a posters for a movie or a show. The hand written title and  the placement of the text  and drawings on a page of his comic was beautifully placed.

After reading the comic, I was very touched with the plot of “ Contract with god”. As it talks about a man who lived in bronx and how his life events changed after loosing his daughter, whom he loved very much. T he way the line weight is created in the entire comic is quite impressive, because to me as an artist, I can relate to the importance of the line weight and how its portrayed. As I observe the technicality of the line weights, I sense that I can visualize him calculating which side of his drawing needs to have heavy lines and which needs to have thin, light lines. Moving forward, the I felt the plot wasn’t really as captivating to me personally, but I can relate to the character MR Harshe, where he always thought that he had  a contract with god, which I personally used t believe as well as I was growing up. I guess the reason I can relate is because in my case of childhood adolescence I was more scared and needed an idea to be a support of my shortcomings, where are Mr harse, here is doing the same. He is using a contract with god as a way of coping mechanism to keep him self afloat and being stable rather than accepting the negative outcome

Review on Nemo Classic Book

When I was a kid, the only reason I ever touched the newspaper was to read the comic section towards the end of the paper. As a child growing up I used to enjoy how small these comics strips were and the quantity of several different comic strips. I guess what attracted me to these strips were probably the formatting of the news paper ( which went something like Local news, world news, business news, gossip columns, technologies and finally a page of funnies and comics). After reading Little Nemo in slumber land, I realized that all those comic strips were addressing some serious goals in our society but with a twist of humor. I had honestly never read Little Nemo before this reading assignment, however, as I read this comic strip, I could not help but get more engrossed in it. Little Nemo in the slumber land address a lot of of the socio economics issues  that were faced by the society as well as  how parents brought up their kids. For example when little Nemo woke up from one of his dreams  with a scare, his father walked in an scolded him to go to sleep. Sure at first its first and I did snicker thinking this little kid.  But the important issue it addresses is that kids are affected by their surroundings, and little Nemo had a scary dream probably because of what he had heard that day. In the words of Sigmund Freud,  he suggested that our dreams are mearly a way of our brain to handle stress and manifest  into good or bad based on  our experiences and understanding. Thus using Mr. Freuds deduction we can assume that the artist was trying to  bring forth some important issues without being too direct.