Aren Agocha Comics and Graphic Narrative 2020

    Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics  When looking through the Comic strip book, I noticed that some comic that did confuse me, and some were hard to follow because the pannels were so short to me to understand the story. Those were mainly the ones with slapstick. The comic strips I had enjoyed more was the satirical commentary ones. The comic strips that stuck out to me the most were the Newlyweds and their baby; it about a family that is putting together a dinner party. Their dinner party ( while it is happening) is seen as very impressive.  The food to the guest is very impressive, there is a lot of chatter, and the Host is showing off their newborn. This party and dialogue are all shown within the first panel. Within the next few pannels, It is seen that the guest did not have a good time. After all, they were just acting. They start to compline with each other about the food, the furniture, and even the baby. They soon in the next panels begin to sprea...

  Write:  Please consider and then write a response to each of these questions about your reading of Archie. 1.  Who do you think buys and reads Archie? Why do you think they buy and read it? probably someone who want to experience the funny hijinks within a small everyday community through the days of an average high schoolboy with characters. People buy the comic to feel good to laugh and to bond with the characters    2.  What in Archie repeats? What characters, situations, ideas, props, themes, or other factors repeat through the various decades of Archie? What ideas or emotions do you think get attached to these repeating aspects of the storytelling? What is important in Archie?   The main character Archie starts off in the first comic as a goofy underdog character who he and his friends get into hijinks in their everyday adventures. Though his persona mature throughout time to more of a jock and his clothes are updated however, he still gets into...

 Aren Agocha          I found it interesting that the book Understanding Comics broke the ideas of what a comic is down to its core. It was quite jarring to see how comics are broken down into shapes and a small number of words into an abstract concept. I found it interesting that at the start, he broke down that we can understand and recognize the same ideas over again; even in its simplest form, it is the basic premise of a cartoon that is fundamental. Scott McCloud explained that cartooning is just the artist using amplification through simplification and still getting the major story across. The artist works with the audience's own experiences to fill in the gaps between pictures to create an idea among multiple images—it like taking numerous pictures in action. Using realism of the world is the choice by the artist, not a necessity for the audience. And yet Scott says the realism in the artwork is still stuck in the world of cartooning. However, realis...

   Une Semaine de Bonte  by Max Ernst .    Une Semaine de Bonte by Max Ernst                                                                         While looking at the Imagery of Max Ernst's work in every image, there is a motif of women and a rooster. The story I interpreted was that of death, fear, and warning. Every image has an image of death; for example, a woman ina coffin or literal skeletons. The pictures are of torture, so I see this as a warning of specific human behaviors and what is to come of the people who could perhaps indulge in such—an ugly look on humanity.  

                                                                             The Arrival by Shaun Tan      In the comic book the Arrival By Shaun Tan, it starts the page with a large image of many photos of different people of different ethnicities. After reading the comic, I realized that these were probably the various immigrants who came over to the new city. The images reminded me of old photographs I have seen of actual immigrants coming to the United States by ship. I found it fascinating how the artist Shaun Tan conveyed real emotion in such a fictional and scientific world when the main character is going through becoming a citizen. His expressions of confusion by all the elements around him expressed my feelings as well.   The audience can relate to the experience of...

 Aren Agocha  Comics and Graphic Narrative September 9 2020   (3 points)                                              Blog Post 1:  The Comic Book History of Comics           When reading The comic book History of comics, I was surprised to learn that Hebert Conway Fisher created the famous Horizontal comic strip boxes. I found it Ironic that the horizontal comic strip boxes idea was rejected at first in fear that the audience would not understand the story elements. The Horizontal boxes soon adapted to papers in 1907, along with punctuation marks.  I was also surprised to learn punctuation marks were also created in the 19th century, but it makes sense seeing this was when the printing press had developed ways to separate words and paragraphs. The punctuation helped the horizontal boxes' information read much clea...