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.

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.