Blankets

In reading this book I found that I could relate to the religious reality very much, I grew up going to a catholic school and being raised by roman catholic republicans, definitely put "the fear of god in me'' As a young kid anyone in a religious setting like that looks up to and believes in the world of religion, when that is what the adults and authority tell you to do. But just as we all do Craig grew up and started to rebel and question the teachings and life style that he was raised with. In meeting Raina I feel like they are using her to represent sin in some ways, even though they illustrate her with extreme beauty you can see the relationship between her and sin. Craig questioning everything is afraid to get super close to her, but I feel like when he does he feels like he gets a little bit closer to god. 

A contract with god

There is a lot of pre-text to get this story flowing, I felt it to be quite a bit in fact but it was a good background. I also found the story to be kind of sad in the beginning it is really sad that his daughter dies, and it's right away. And it is true how can god go back on his contract, or did he get his full filling years? He made a pact and god didn't follow on his end. It's only right that it rains through his entire mourning period. It is sad however that he breaks the stone that he wrote the contract on. The passing of his daughter changes everything he lies and cheats, and does things he never thought he would do. Once he did this he became a very rich man buying up property after property. He tries to re-write another contract. I feel like he kinda of looses his mind a little bit. The young boy that saves the day, finds the old stone with the contract and decides to keep it.
I really enjoyed the section about the street singer. He starts out so innocent meets the diva, has a baby with another lady, beats her apologizes and moves on with the day. He gets drunk often and falls asleep in the funniest of places. Gets kick out and continues on singing.
The super is a really messed up section. Of a creepy angry old man who is tricked by a little girl who steals his money and poisons his dog at the end of it the super shoots himself and the girl keeps the money.
The last section is all about city goers who live the city for the country over the summer. All with their own problems but most of them having the same problems money. They all seem to be in a search for more. Most of the town packs up and gets on a train and heads for the country. A class difference is shown, and expressed in a big manner. I mean it fits the time period. At the end of the last section it's all about sex and cheating and it is quit pornographic.
I would have to say over all I really enjoyed the style of this Graphic Novel. I love that there is a lot of free space on the page and that your not overwhelmed with the text. I find his characters to be extremely interesting in drawing style, and I think it's funny how the side view of one character varies so much from the front view.

Plastic Man

I really enjoyed reading the plastic man I found it to be very adventurous I loved that it was a superhero comic it makes it feel more like a comic. I loved the imagery it gave the comic so much movement. It was almost more like a stop action film. Sometimes the text was a bit heavy, and some parts felt a little politically correct, but I found that comical. I guess over all I just really loved the imagery and the story line of the comic. It was my first action adventure and I really enjoyed reading it. 

Film: The Adventures of Prince Achmed

I really enjoyed this film. I felt that it was intence with the music but I also found the imagery to by beautiful. From the beginning to the end of the film, Reiniger kept me involved and so interested, I really just couldn't wait to see what was going to come next. Visually this film was incredible with all of the silhouettes, It's amazing to think that they were all cut out, I loved the emotional content that was given to each character were amazingly clear and even over dramatized. 

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Krazy Kats

Smaller panles, more overlapping between frames in the begging as you move through the years Krazy Kats develops into having bigger frames. From the first panel to the last you know what to expect, he leads you right into it. The text varies from heavy to nothing, as do the images themselves in their style. Some of them are very open and clean but then you'll have frames that are super heavy and condensed. As you move further through the years, he drops the frames down to 3 for quite sometime then, He goes back to six panels per page, and then he goes back to how he started with overlapping panels. Sometimes the text and image work together and sometimes the text seems to be overpowering to the image. In some cases the text is really heavy and overwhelming, not being quite sure what to look at first. It's expected that you are always going to be led through the comic and that at some point you will be overwhelmed by the story.

Dreams of the Rarebit fiend

Over all the style goes from a clean line to a messy line. It seems that when he is closer to a frame where he is in a bed that it tends to be more scratchy than in other frames. The type matches the style of the drawing in most cases. The text kind of in just hovering wherever it can find space. I don't feel that it is integrated to well. When they are dreaming everything is line work. When they are awake there are blocks of black color. It is expected that while dreaming you will see thing presented in line work, but the closer they get to waking up the darker the blocks of black get. The main character of each page seem to be so dramatic to the point where if something happens to them eveything stops.

Calvin and Hobbs

I chose to read the first calvin and hobbs book, being that I own the book their is something under the bed and it's drooling (which I personally always thought Calvin just wet the bed). It's been a long time since i've read a calvin and hobs comic and I was excited to take another look at it. I forgot how funny and straight to the point he is in most strips. In 5 short frames he can basically tell you almost everything he needs to say. I love that most of the strips are so short and sweet. This comic is funny and entertaining for lots of reasons. Mainly I like that they mix some politics in there in a really childish way, and calvin is always spot on with his remarks. Growing up when I did read comics it was Calvin and Hobbs and the Peanuts. Maybe I was so interested in the Peanuts because they were everywhere in Minnesota especially after Charles died. Anyways, back to Calvin and Hobbs. It's a super witty comic that really brings in the modern family, and how kids can be. I like that they show Calvin as being an intelligent person that is not so good in school because of his lack of intrest. But that he makes life so entertaining to himself by turning adults and people that he is not so interested in, into monsters. When I took a look at this book I instantly asked myself where hobbs came in, I was thinking that he was Calvins imaginary friend, and then I saw Hobbs drawn as the stuffed tiger and went "OHHhh YEAH! That's right" It's funny how you remember things. I got a good kick out of reading this book, some good chuckles, and a nice walk down memory lane. The whole time comparing my thoughts of Calvin and Hobbs and reading it now, to what I thought about it when I was younger, and I keep trying to remember if I really caught on to what he was getting at. I definitely now understand it completely.

Flash Gordon

This comic was so detailed and beautiful, I love that you can see them living out their life together like one continuous story. It's more like a story book in that way. With the images being so detailed you really get a feel for who the characters are and what they look like and a real idea of their personality. You can relate to them but I don't really see myself as being any of the characters. I really liked how he showed the seasons and how he portrayed his idea of early settlement. I feel that with the images being so detailed that you really get a good image of what he is trying to say without having to read the comic, which is good because it's not written in english :)

Little Nemo

I was excited to read this comic being that I had watched Little Nemo Adventures in Slumberland when I was little. I was a little disappointed to be honest. I love the imagery but the story was nothing like the comic strip. When the man comes to tell Nemo that he has been requested to see his majesty and he rides off on a horse gets in a race and wakes up in bed and that's it, it's just not far. I wanted the oomp to come back and have him try again or something. I was expecting the comic to show me this epic journey, because of the influence the movie has had on me. In all honesty it's a creepy kid movie, but I loved it.