BareFoot Gen

The movie was really intense when talking about the war and showing how the times had been. You feel so much pity and sorrow for the people, but still laugh along with them. As intense as the story line was it still had a very light hearted way about it. Not only are they starving but the mother is pregnant and not well, Her family is all very sweet and gives up everything they can to help save their mother/wife survie. I found the drawing of the movie to be simple with just the right amount of details where they needed to be to make the story as real life as it can be from a graphic stand point. There was also a small color palate used through out the movie. Maybe it is because they are younger and this is their beginning, but in the second half after the bomb hits there seems to be a larger color palate and more intensity to the treatment of the film. I really liked how it gave a feeling of their actual struggles and how kind and cruel it made people. I feel that by keeping the film more light hearted in style and voice of the characters that it made it easier to relate to the characters and their situation. This is also our first feel for a type of feel for a completely different kind of style in comics and definitely touches more on a Japanese feel but still with an american touch. I don't feel that it quite hits anime status but that it is more a touch on their style.

Underground comics

In taking a look at the underground comics and Robert Crumb I forgot how iconic he was for me when I was younger. Mr. Natural and Keep on Truckin where comics that I remembered the but didn't actually remember the content, I just remember it being funny but not why. My long board actually features R. Crumb keep on truckin'.
Anyways on topic I find that mr. Naturals cynical ways and bad temper to be fairly entertaining. It was easy and quick to read through being that their are not a lot of words just mostly a pictorial story. I find that R. Crumb's imagery to remind me of popeye. Maybe it's the strokes of his drawings and the gestures, but it really struck me when I was reading through Mr. Natural. Honestly it reminded me most of my dad's attitude and all of the other men that I use to interact with when I worked at 3M. I love the jokes and the crude attitude of all of them, the jokes are very similar to the ones that run through the underground comics.     I like the simplicity of how crumb illustrates Mr. Natural to his other comics, it feels more like the mind of a "guru" Yes some of the backgrounds get more complicated from panel to panel but the text still has simplicity. I also love the simplistic use in color, their is a very small color palet. I loved that attitude of Fat freddy's cat haha...It made me giggle and reading through it at times it was more like reading a poem or almost the lyrics to a song. Only because it had a rhythmic way of being written and spread out through the panels. I really like the back and fourth play of the looseness in the drawings. His owner fat freddy is totally was the type of man that doesn't remember the 60's today. Fat freddy has some really expressive faces and uses them often, He interacts with everything and everyone. Mischief is definitely his nitch. I loved it when he plays the detective and while answering the phone he smashes his head between his women's breasts. haha... the jokes and attitudes are very entertaining. I feel that underground comics for the time where just kind of branching out into how the media is run today, yes that makes the shock value for our generation less powerful today than it was then but it can still be entertaining and respected. Glancing over a quiet a few of the underground comics they were all crude, sexual, and embraceful of the time period wither it was mind altering for the writers or not.

Tin Tin in Tibet

I found this personal adventure story to be very colorful and engaging. I feel that the color and the way that the characters are drawn are fun and kept me in interested in the story. As much as I liked the plot line it wasn't my most favorite story that I have read so far.
However I want to talk more about the way the comic is laid out and put together. I felt that the comic was very wordy and I'm not a big fan of the type face. But still the colors in the book and the loose character drawings are just so fascinating. I think it's so cute that they all have flushed faces, and it's on all of the characters. I love the diversity that he shows in all of the characters of different ethnicities. The action and the movement that you see from panel to panel are intriguing, all of the backgrounds have very clean neat lines. I also love how he shows the emphasis on the important events by zooming in on the situation. I do also find it entertaining that the main character seems to get shat on a lot, and the boy is always helping him out like his guardian angel. The way he shows the struggles and the intensity in the faces of the characters really helped me get the feeling of what he was trying to say. It was also very cute and comical how he shows the variations on the dog and when he is thinking.

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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