Briana's Blog

what is your reaction to the text? While reading the text, it was interesting to see how smoothly the story transitioned into each scene. The way the artist was able to connect the past and present through smooth visual transitions was impressive and made the work even more enjoyable to read. It was an intense and sad and scary comic all in one. I enjoyed it very much. What connections did you make to the story? Discuss the elements of the story with which you were able to connect. For me, the idea of poverty and sanity stood out to me. Poverty in the sense that I know what it's like to be in that position, but with sanity I feel that it can be a result of poverty. People close to me who have experience homelessness, for example, displayed a sense of losing themselves and the world around them. It's a sad reality that I realized at a young age. What changes would you make to adapt this story into another medium? What medium would you use? What changes would you make?

Women in comics is one of my favorite segments we've covered so far in class. One of the reasons being that I am a woman and enjoy seeing women succeed, but also because it's acknowledging just how far women have come as artists as a whole and how we found our place alongside the guys. Women were able to prove (and still are proving) that they can create cool, dynamic works of art that are not just confined to subject matters of love, domestic life and taking the backseat when it comes to saving the day. For this weeks reading, I took a look at Pretty Deadly. Just by scrolling a few pages in, it is just that. Beautiful imagery and lots of blood. Personally, I love how the artist was able to combine the two. I think what I already admired about this work was that the art spoke for itself. I din't care necessarily if a woman or a man did it. The art just looks amazing. I think was helps to separate it from a lot of work though, is the style and subject matter. It has this

Asterios Pulp was probably one of the most interesting comics i've seen so far. The way it is able to carry the reader through the story with such strong and visually pleasing visuals is something that I find to be incredibly impressive! There is this type of distortion that occurs quite frequently in this type. It's not only noticeable in the illustrations, but also the typography. For example, the title of the comics is handled in this manner. Color and line is expressed quite energetically throughout this piece as well. A color palette is also established and is kept pretty consistent through the comic as well. The colors pink, purple, blue and yellow are the colors expressed here. Large shapes further this strong, graphic style as well. Shape language can not only be seen in the characters, but also in the architecture as well. One of my favorite pages where it shows this is in the beginning where the building is burning down. The way the artists simplifies the shapes

For this week's reading I decided to read Astro Cat. I've never actually read Astro Boy, so I wasn't sure if I'd be completely lost in what was going on. Thankfully, though, there was a brief summary of how Astro Boy came to be, which pretty much filled in enough information for me. Because I don't have much experience with reading comics, I actually found myself reading left to right...it took me two pages in to realize that I needed to be going right to left. Ooops! Nonetheless, I was still able to understand the story fully. Astro cat is basically Astro boy, but in a cat body. I really enjoyed how they paralleled how astro cat was created with astro boy's story - they both get into a bad crash and someone dies and is remade into a super-being. Although it's a bit sad, I do enjoy how the characters are reunited in a sense and also can help save those in need. What I really enjoyed about reading this comic was the style of art and story telling. The cha