Michael Dubois

Nov.5

The story revolves the life of Rose and Windy. Every summer, Rose and her family always spend their summer holiday in their summer cottage at Awago. In Awago, she had a childhood friend whom she always spends most of her summer time with. With all of these new experience on the parent fighting and the teenagers romantic love that ended up with a tragedy of the pregnancy, towards the end of her summer vacation, Rose realize that both the adults and the teenagers are also have a lot of problem and Rose and her family left the summer cottage. It was a really interesting read it felt more mature of a storyline then a lot of other comics.

Michael Dubois

Oct.29

I read Aterios Polyp the artwork in this was really interesting. The color pallet that changes in such an interesting way. how the story goes back and forth between the time after Asterios is separated from his wife and the events leading up the event. How simple to artwork and color pallet was made it easier to move along with the story.

Michael Dubois

Oct.22

Until this day I have yet to ever read any Mangas they never really struck my attention and they still really don’t do much for me. There are so many stereotypes and hate directed towards manga and anime, but they are not what the say it is. They are not that bad of a read if you are into that kind of style. Lets face it Mangas definitely have a highly unique style of art.

Michael Dubois

Oct.15

I watched the movie of Persepolis and you can really feel the European style of work in this film. Persepolis is a story about a young girl born in Iran and dealing with the Islamic revolution that took place in the 1980s. Going over hard topics of women dress code and social constructs presented at the time. The way you are drawn into the story as if you actually with her, how it draws you in like the you lived the story with them. 

Michael Dubois

Oct.8

Weather or not you think that you are a racist or not everyone has his or her own stereotypes for many different minority groups. It begins to get old when the use of stereotypes keep being used for entertainment rather then trying break these things and create something new and interesting. Stereotyping is not necessary in the character design and representation if the artist is able to effectively tell their story though plot and design rather than visual characteristics. Many of these stereotypes are beginning to disappear in comics and art alike, now that more and more artists are becoming aware of these stereotypes and how they affect others.

Transmetropolitain

1. Are there any prominent symbols in the story? if so what are they and how are they used?
One of the main symbols i noticed were his weapons. he uses his weapons as a comfort to what he knows. He does not like something his weapons come out, he gets angry his weapons come out, he does not get his way his weapons come out. basically his weapons are part of his and what he stands for.

2. What connections did you make with the story? Discuss the elements of the work with which you were able to connect.
On his way back into the city he was meet with a million different little advertisements from billboards to radio ads to people selling ad space on their own bodies. In this time and age everything is an advertisement and at times it can get overwhelming and you just need to get away from it all for a while. At times i wish i could just get away from it all, it just seems to get out of control, the media spins stories in wrong directions and you cannot trust in everything you hear.

3. What changes would you make to adapt this story into another medium? What medium would you use? What changes would you make?
This story is so animated in the way it is laid out and written it would be perfect as an animated feature. With how the world of journalism is up in your face you could take all these dumb little ads throughout the story and throw them in the face of the consumer to show how the world could be. Spider is a great character, he is all up in everyones face and is not afraid to be out there and get the job done. Not many changes would need to happen but the one thing i would change is that Spider would have to get even more crazy and violent in order to achieve the goals he is looking for.

Michael Dubois

Oct.1

Its hard to believe that this sort of evil could ever exist. Maus was a great read but its still hard to grasp the reality of the Holocaust. But Maus made it easier for the read to understand better. The fact the Jews were the mice relates to the fact that they were treated much like we do our cattle. When the therapist was portrayed as a human with a  mask on stood out the most to me because you can see the direct relation to the story and what really happened. How do we ever let something like this happen? How evil do you need to be to think in this mannor?