Blog Post #3: The Comic Strip

Blog Post #3
The Comic Strip

            Looking at the older comics such as Little Nemo and Krazy Kat I noticed that they have very different styles. Little Nemo has a very complex comic style using colors, dialogue bubbles, and descriptions for each panel. Reading the Little Nemo comics is very confusing because of the way the descriptions on the bottoms of the panel and not knowing if it is necessary to read the bottom of the panel first and then the dialogue or read all the dialogue at once and then the descriptions. Krazy Kat is a simpler comic using four panels and line drawings and very little dialogue. The comic strip Krazy Kat makes some jokes that I don’t understand but it could also be the humor of the time. There isn’t very much story in the Krazy Kat comic strip but it gives me a feeling of an early version of Tom and Jerry or Snoopy and Woodstock. Looking at some newer comics such as Peanuts by Charles Schulz which has a similar style to Krazy Kat but is more typical of the type of comic strips that we would see in newspapers. Along with Peanuts, another famous comic strip is Calvin and Hobbes which has a combination of Krazy Kat and Little Nemo using the more detail illustrations and color but with a simple story but is extended to more than four panels.

            Seeing the evolution of comic strips is interesting because it still has aspects of an older comic like the illustration style of Little Nemo that use more details and use more story but then there are comic strips that are like Krazy Kat that are simple drawings with a simple story that fits into a small number of panels. More recent comic strips have more relatable stories. In Peanuts, the stories are short but they are easy to connect with because they have storylines that are simple but relatable to the readers. Calvin and Hobbes is a story about a little boy who believes his stuff animal is real but nobody else sees that. I think the connection to our childhood and our fascination with the stuffed animal and how it is our friend and something we covet. Relatable stories make comic strips more interesting to me. 

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