week 14, Webtoon!

In Korea, we usually called web comic to 'WebToon' and it became very successful in the Korean comic industries. There are few reasons but I think the biggest reason is awareness of copyright. Almost 15 years ago, there are a lot of comics published by author but most of readers didn't buy the book but downloaded scanned comics to read from internet. Korean comic industries were almost corrupted and web comic was published at same time. They show the comic free but put advertisement end of the comic. Nowadays, it became major comic industries in the Korea.

Here is the site to translated to English and this is a site to read. http://www.webtoons.com/en/ 

I loved to watch 'The stories of Those around me' and 'salty studio'. it was created by omyo, who is comic artist and illustrator, both of them are romance comic and I felt some sympathy when I read.

Week 13 Superheroes Reconsidered

I read 'Fables' because I played game 'wolf among us' which is based on the 'Fables' previous story.

Briefly, Fables was a comic book series published by DC Comics's Vertigo imprint beginning in 2002. The series deals with various people from fairy tales and folklore – referring to themselves as "Fables" – who have been forced out of their Homelands by "The Adversary" who has conquered the realm. The Fables have traveled to our world and formed a clandestine community in New York City known as Fabletown. Fables who are unable to blend in with human society (such as monsters and anthropomorphic animals) live at "the Farm" in upstate New York.

This is based on the fables so easy to catch the story and it was fun to watch how they adapted to the city life.

week 12 comics by women

I just read 'Rat Queens' because it has very appealing comic style and color. I tried to read 1st volume but the rink didn't works. basically, it's about the adventurer in a medieval fantasy setting.

It is about The eponymous "Rat Queens" are a rambunctious party of adventurers in a medieval fantasy setting. They comprise the rockabilly elven mage Hannah, the hipsterdwarven warrior Violet who shaved her beard before it became cool, the atheist human cleric Dee, who hails from a family of Lovecraftian monster cultists, and thehippie halfling thief Betty, whose idea of a hearty meal is a bag of drugs and candy.
The first five issues follow the group's exploits as they try to defend themselves against assassins intent on killing them and other adventuring groups that have been roughing up their home town of Palisade. The second story arc sees the Rat Queens trying to prevent a vengeful businessman from summoning Dee's people'smany-tentacled gods to lay waste to Palisade. The third arc has Hannah return to her sinister alma mater after her father is arrested for attempting a coup.

Week 11 Comics As Contemporary Literature

I read 'Channel Zero'. It was pretty impressive because the style of comic is pretty strong. They are used only black and white, no color and this style really fit into story of the comic. Also I like the story which is about the Jennie 2.5, a hacker who uses an illegal television channel to urge viewers fight back against New York and America's violent theocracy. It was a cool comic and I really enjoyed it.

week 10 Japanese manga

       Japanese manga is very important in my life because I learned a lot of style and concept to draw and I got ideas from them.

       In the resource page, I read 'Battle Angel Alita'(as known as 'Chong-mong) and 'Akira'. Those are one of my favorite manga because my favorite genre in manga is SF- cyberpunk. The feature of this genre are realistic and believable future life and I believe it become a real life in near future.

      Mangas I recommend in this genre are 'Ghost in the shell' and 'Planetes'. Breifly, 'Ghost in the shell' is the story about a special team in Japanese military fight against cyber crime or cyber terrorism. 'Planetes' is a story about space debris, which are coming from old satellites or space shuttles, cleaners. It is fun  an satire the human desire to conquer the space. 

week9 Wide world of comic

When I was in the middle school in Korea, I read 'Asterix'  a lot. It was translated in Korean version.
I had fun memory to watch the combination fighting between Asterix and Obelix. Now, I just watched the 'Asterix and Cleopatra'  It is more fun than I read before because I understand their humor and I felt it is kind a educational comic.
One of the scene I laughed is Obelix broke Sphinx's nose and he hided under the sand. It is common cliche of western humor which someone broke something, than usually they hide the broken thing under the carpet. I said it is a educational comic the reason is after watch this scene, I searched about the Sphinx and she didn't have a nose and nobody knows. There are several guesses but still any guesses are perfectly fit into the reason. Probably, I think Obelix broke it!

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.