Week 6 Underground Comix(WIP)

         I just read a few comics in 'Zap Comix' and it's very interesting. I can feel these comics were influenced by hippie culture and I saw some satires about society. Also, I was impress about their don't care about the format much and talk about the various topic than 'Mainstream' comics.

Week 5 Contract with God

          This is a sad story about migrant labor during early 20th century. I don't want to talk about story longer because everybody read and doesn't want to spoil it. When I see it first, I felt little weird because Will Eisner, who is author, didn't used much panels like nowadays comic or manga. Also, recent graphic novels cut the scene by panels but this won't. I felt its more like a novel with illustrations. He really is good at using straight lines to express the mood and emotion of the character and it makes me focus to the story.

Week 4 & 5 Herge and Carl Barks. Adventures of Tintin

        I know this round-headed character. In Korea, we called 'ThangThang'. I don't know why they changed the name but When I was young I watched a few episodes of this comic and animation in a television. However, I can't recall any episode or story but I recall there are some action scenes in there.
       I just watched a few episodes of 'Bruxelles' It is kind a fun and This episodes were changed stereotype of Asian people. Briefly, Tintin go to the India and fight against drug dealer group. Then, he goes to China and saved Tchang Tchong-Jen. After saving him, 
He said to Tintin "I'm Chang... But... why did you rescue me? I thought all white people are bad."
 Tintin said "... all white guys are not bad. We thought all Chinese are bad and cruel"
Then, they goes together, showing stereotypes of Asians and Europeans and also shows how they were different. I think this comic affected to reduced some racism and stereotype of each other.