Everyone besides Asterios and Ignacio had normal, human shaped heads. It could be debated that Mazzucchelli didn’t want the reader to get them mixed up with other characters. However, I see their heads as half of a circle. Putting Asterios’ and Ignacio’s head together would produce a full circle, which represents their connection. Since Ignacio does not exist physically, one half… Read more →
Author: DesireeSW
Not Your Regular Graphic Novel
This post contains some spoilers from The Unwritten. I begin this blog post with an anecdote… One Thanksgiving break, a friend and I were driving to Arkansas and in order to entertain ourselves, we brought along the audio version of A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness. Now this novel is about 20 hours long, so we listened to it when… Read more →
The Truth About the World
What I liked about Dream Country was that there were so many ideas and themes that reminded me of things I had already read/watched before. It offered a sense of familiarity that made me more open to interpreting the stories. For length’s sake, I’m just going to focus on “Dream of a Thousand Cats.” The first thing that popped out… Read more →
Stereotypical Manga Girls
I’ve read a fair amount of manga, generally Shōjo manga, which are targeted to girls age 11 – 18. Some themes that are focused on are: school romance, magical girl, and historical romance. For this blog post, I will focus on school romance in order to narrow things down. What I’ve noticed is that the main girls shown in these… Read more →