Joseph Pannizzo Prof Kumar English 101 April 10 2011 McCloud and Berger Comparison Art is a field that is often perceived differently depending on the person that observes it. Scott McCloud, author of Setting the Record Straight, is a cartoonist that tries to show people the art and storytelling behind comics while John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing, explain how art is perceived by the public eye. They both explain how art is not always black and white and has many layers of gray in between. There is not just one way to look at a piece of art. However, Berger and McCloud have two completely different reasons to why art is this way.
A graphic novel, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is a full-length story published as a book in comic-strip format. Graphic novels are usually utilized to tell stories from the science fiction and fantasy genres. They can, however, be used to tell stories from other genres. In the case of Refresh, Refresh, Danica Novgorodoff utilized the form to capture a well-written short story about three boys and the struggles they face as their fathers go off to war with the Marines, originally written by Benjamin Percy. A graphic novel was a good choice in re-telling this story because it captured emotions you might not see by simply reading the story without imagery also telling the story.
It was called ‘Metamorphosis.’” (3). Sam understands that he too must undergo this alteration, and finds the catalyst for this in Joe. Ever the storyteller, Sam embodies the attractive, athletic Joe as a type of superhero. Keeping with the theme of heroes, Joe’s gift of drawing vivifies Sam’s passion for comic books and presents him with a creative use of his talents. Sam changes his name from “Klayman” to a more media-friendly “Clay”.
The distinctively visual is used throughout peter goldsworthys novel ' maestro ' and the painting By edward munch ' the scream ' 1893. there is some overlap between the distinctively visual techniques used by these writers and painters. This is done through the use of visual imagery, metaphor, exaggeration and the use of colour. The extended metaphor of peter goldsworthy “to describe the world is always to simplify its texture, to coarsen the weave: to lose the particular in general”, portrays that once you try to represent something, you lose something of its real life essence and that the act of writing about something in the world simplifies it. Both texts revel important insights into human experiences by showing the reader how the character
Gender representations seen in the comics of Wonder Woman and through the cartoon Betty Boop all extensively analyze the issue of gender within Comics and Cartoons. There are countless amounts of controversial representations of women within these two comics that society can identify with and consider the norm to be. Charles Moulton’s comic Wonder Woman and Max Fleischer’s Betty Boop are both main characters that are women. This paper will analyze how Wonder Woman can be classified as a liberating character within a heavily male influenced society, which was dominated by a patriarchal ideology. Through wonder woman, one can see how her characterization has helped changed and challenge this ideology of male dominance in the world of comics and cartoon.
Tanner Vinson Carroll English Comp. II 28 May 2010 Symbolism in “The Great Gatsby” In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” we see the use of symbolism at its finest. Although the symbolism in this novel can be seen physically through the character’s eyes, the symbolism must be further analyzed to understand its significance in the story. The list of symbols in this novel is relatively lengthy, but among the most important are East and West Egg, the green light, and the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg gazing over the valley of ashes. The conflict of interacting social classes is seen through the symbolism of East and West Egg.
He often creates very alternate commentary on political, cultural and emotional themes in life using his whimsy characters. He describes his approach as “regressive, messy and vaudevillian - producing work which is both raw and sublime, loved and hated.” (Michael Leunig website). His artistic style often has a very playfully quaint or fanciful feel in the way creates his pencil and line drawings. These pencil line drawings often have heavy philosophical statements about modern society embedded in them. Leunig also uses watercolours in many of his thought provoking art works.
Citing Watchmen as the point where the comic book medium "came of age", Iain Thomson wrote in his essay "Deconstructing the Hero" that the story accomplished this by "developing its heroes precisely in order to deconstruct the very idea of the hero and so encouraging us to reflect upon its significance from the many different angles of the shards left lying on the ground". [38] Thomson stated that the heroes in Watchmen almost all share a nihilistic outlook, and that Moore presents this outlook "as the simple, unvarnished truth" to "deconstruct the would-be hero's ultimate motivation, namely, to provide a secular salvation and so attain a mortal immortality". [39] He wrote that the story "develops its heroes precisely in order to ask us if we would not in fact be better off without heroes". [40] Thomson added that the story's deconstruction of the hero concept "suggests that perhaps the time for heroes has passed", which he feels distinguishes "this postmodern work" from the deconstructions of the hero in the existentialism movement. [41] Richard Reynolds states that without any supervillains in the story, the superheroes of Watchmen are forced to confront "more intangible social and moral concerns", adding that this removes the superhero concept from the normal narrative expectations of the genre.
The writer is seen as a literary “prophet”, a “realist of distances” (O’Connor, 818), because he takes upon himself the task of explicitly illuminating that which most other texts merely imply, and thus the scales of meaning are tipped almost entirely in favor of the writer. Writers of grotesque fiction are thus those that go the greatest distance in bringing to the surface the intricate nuances of our existence by conjuring up characters (and situations) whose traditional physicality and/or personality is maimed and contorted under the burden of ideas trying to be elicited by the writer. It is as if the characters are the materialization of traditionally intangible concepts and notions. In traversing this distance, a necessary sacrifice is made of the intermediary subject matter that lies between the essential concrete needed to create the basic familiar outline and the deeper reality that is being highlighted. In part, it is simply a stylistic sacrifice that prevents the dilution of the deeper reality, where the absence of the familiar accentuates the presence of the extreme.
Roger Tschida 9-12-2012 Professor Honey Response Paper #1 Literature is greatly varied in style, taste, and purpose, but a major component of the detail and often the symbolism in any story is the choice of colors for the characters and scenery. While the other four authors use some color for simple descriptions and detail, Bierce and Gilman each take a single color and focus on it to symbolize their view of the topic about which they wrote. Bierce chooses the color gray to signify the cross between fantasy and reality, and Gliman uses yellow to dig into the mind and investigate the psychological trauma she endured earlier in life. Of all the authors read so far, Willa Cather has by far written the most boring, over-detailed stories.