Week3 Comic Strip

         Early of 20th Century, most of comics had been published in newspaper or magazine. So, most of comics had limited space in paper, and they were looking for effcient way to brief humor or form a narrative. At that time, they started to used pannel and text in balloon and caption effectively.

         There are several representing comics like Nemo magazine, Krazy Kat by George Herriman. My favorite is 'Peanuts by Charles Schulz and 'Calvin and Hobbes' by Bill Waterson. Especially, Calvin and Hobbes is very famous in South Korea and I love to watched it. At that time, I was just enjoyed the episode but later after I grew up, when watch the comic I felt weirdness. First of all, Hobbes is not real Tiger!(even when I was young, I was kind a wonder how tiger lives with human but it could be excused because it is comic) Hobbes is actually a doll but he has life when Calvin talk to Hobbes. Also I felt little bit of the philosophy because Calvin always played with Hobbes but in different point of view like father or mother, Calvin is just playing with doll. I think Bill Waterson want to show all event has different interpretation by each person.

          This is Fun to know american comics but it was too much read, so I hope when I got a time, I want to read and think how american comics changed step by step.

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Week2 Understanding Comics!

         When I was young I wanna be a comic book artist but I changed my mind because I thought I'm not a good storyteller at that time. Now after read Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, I knew why it was so hard to be making comic to me. I always focus on to show good quality of drawing like a professional but actually that was not that important. After I read Understanding Comic, I'm very impressed about Scott McCloud analyze the comic. Especially,  when he explain iconic expression and transition between the panels it was pretty impressive.