Tuesday, February 23, 2016

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

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