I have talked about the nature of memory, particularly in memoirs in quite a few other classes, so I was not surprised, when we broke up into groups on Friday during class, that I once again found myself discussing how accurate memories are, in terms of memoir. Throughout her work Bechdel says “I think” frequently. While some may say that… Read more →
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What Happens When Comics Are Cancelled?
Television Shows get cancelled all the time, and for those of us that are particularly television obsessed, our hearts break with every cancellation. We have talked during class at length at how comics and graphic novels relate to film, and how we can easily see them as movies and how the framing works the same as it would in a… Read more →
Creating a Comic
When I first heard that we were doing a web-comic in this class I got very excited. I have always found web-comics fascinating, and completely tooting my own horn, have had an idea I thought would be good with one for ages, the only problem: I cannot draw to save my life. So upon hearing about the assignment, I had… Read more →
How Graphic Novel Adaptions of Classics are Creating Accessibility
We are very used to seeing adaptions of Graphic Novels these days. This summer alone we saw the releases of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Antman, and Fantastic Four. What we are not used to seeing as much, but is happening just as frequently, are graphic novel adaptions of classical pieces of literature. One of these adaptions (Marvel’s Pride & Prejudice)… Read more →
My One Problem with “What It Is”
I have very much enjoyed our conversation throughout the week on What It Is. I have just personally found it difficult to connect with the book itself. With all of the other materials we have read this semester, it was rather easy for me to read it, process it, and then move forward with it. But there is something about What… Read more →
Why Kamala Khan Is Important: Bringing Relatability Back to Superheroes
There is another post on this blog about Miles Morales as Spiderman, and when I saw that, it made me smile. Not only am I a huge Miles Morales fan, but it also made me start to think of Kamala Khan’s Ms. Marvel series, which brought me to the greater thought of why it is so important to increase broader… Read more →
Reflection on Rosie
One of the things that stuck with me the most during our discussions last week of Eisner’s Contract With God, was our discussions about “The Super,” and more specifically how we all had such varying opinions about Rosie and what Rosie’s intentions were during that story. What I found so particularly interesting about this discussion was how varied the… Read more →
The Reverse Jump: Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Journey from Screen to Graphic Novel
It seems like every fall, at the start of the TV season, there is a new comic book or graphic novel being adapted into yet another ‘superhero’ type TV show. Last fall invokes images of the trailers and the first episodes of The Flash, Gotham, and iZombie, all television programs adapted from DC Comics properties. This fall and winter we… Read more →