Aren Agocha Comics and Graphic Narrative 2020

 1. What is your reaction to the text you just read? I have never read the killing joke before, but I knew it is a classic comic book that many suggest reading. When reading the Killing Joke, I was very intrigued, but I honestly wanted more to conclude the story. Not that the ending was not good, but I wanted to continue reading the story. I love the imagery and how each transition Panels from past to present work very well for the storytelling.  I could learn a lot from the drawings and story choices. 2. What connections did you make with the story? Discuss what elements of the story with which you were able to connect? The transition in pannels from the past to the present was what helped guide the story, in my opinion. Even though every image goes pannel by the panel, the artist connects what is happening using the same body poses between panels in different scenes to show the passage of time or flashbacks.   I felt like a camera in a movie or Storyboards. Same as a transition or us

 I was a bit surprised to read such fun and inviting into telling teen kids that they can read this like an adult, and then the first comic was an allegory for world war II with cats and mice. I did not even see any jokes within the comic, which I am grateful for with this subject matter; however, it was just a little sadder of a star than I thought it would be.  I feel like some adult cartoon comedy shows are today where they say many curse words and profanity, and they call it jokes. They want to see the worst they can get away with it. The comic industry was very tight with its code of conduct, and many comics are for kids. I make sense that many underground comic artists were those exposed o the effects of the war of Vietnam, Martin Luther King Jr, riots, and many other extreme events in the 1960-70s. With being exposed to all of those things and not having much of an outlet, they used comics as personal expression. The comics code authority controlled what too violent and crud was

Read Fun home : ( 6 points )  I finally read Fun Home for the first time. The story reminds me of Maus, but the story is being told by the daughter as posed to the father telling his own story. So we do not know which is exaggerated in second-hand memories.  The descriptions the narrator uses to describe their relationship with their childhood home and family is fascinating. They use many greek myths and stories to describe their relationship with their father, and they describe their home as the labyrinth with how large it is, and their father as the monitor, as children scared to turn the corner of the house, they may run into him.  This perfectionist looks the dad has, focusing on the smallest things. He is almost robotic and hyper-fixated on the house, for it was the only thing he felt he could control. I found the father projecting an image on the house, trying to cover up anything inside and outside the house, interesting. He has a blurry line between reality and fiction within t

    (5 points) I read buddha 2 the four encounters by OSAMU TEZUKA. The art style was very kid-like and reminded me of manga-inspired rubber hose Disney cartoons. Like Astro boy comics. I was surprised to find how adult the topics were for this story. It was a very political story and very surrounded by the philosophy of death. However, the philosophy and the world-building in the story is what kept me invested. I enjoyed each character, as well. For a short story, each character was quite understandable in motive and personality. The protagonist was a young prince at the age of 15, and he feels his purpose in life is to leave the palace and become a Buddha. A very slow-paced story, but it still kept me interested in what the main character would do next when fighting against his royal responsibilities and fighting for what he believes in. Throughout the second book, it focuses on the prince learning about death through the animals and people around him, realizing that strength does no

 Volume 1:  So I read March a story about John Lewis and the fight for African Americans Human rights. I have wanted to read this comic for a long time.  The story starts with congressman Lewis in his office showing two young boys their history and beginning his life on this particular path. He was a very observant and very bright man. He learns so much from just chickens. His real dream was to become a preacher, so he preached funny enough in the barn, using the chickens as his audience.  Lewis grew compassion for these animals. I found it interesting that he grew so attached he provide eulogies and baptisms for new chicks. Of course, reality strikes him quite early, and one of his chicks die from the water in his baptisms, and he soon, like many, learns that everything passes away. Throughout the comic, the artist used black, white, and grey tones to establish the mood of the environments—Black for the darker scenes, especially the ones following more tragic memories. I admire Congre

 I read one of the Mobius comics. I have vaguely heard of the artist; however, I never saw his work until now. His comic opened with worlds beyond imagination, feeling like we landed on a new planet. I would put these stories in the category of Syfy fantasy. The illustrations are beautiful; the images and the colors the artist chose reminds me of 80's rock posters. The colors are vibrant, and the atmosphere is whimsical. The reader had to use context clues to understand the world-building. And the first story had no dialogue, which made it feel otherworldly.  However, these stories have no text boxes or words to describe what is happening, so it is not easy to follow the plot. There are different stories within one world. When reading the small text about the background of the book, it said that it didn't fit into the comic book genre, it plunges the reader into an alien world, and it succeeds by the reader vaguely being able to figure out how it works. The other comic stories