Victoria Provost_LMST 340: Literature of Comics and The Graphic Narrative

Blog Post #10 Manga                         Reading Battle Angel Alita “Last Order” I found it very interesting to read and the story is extremely interesting to me to read but following the action in the manga was difficult. The story of Gally and how she had become who she is now and her purpose of her creation is interesting. The use of science fiction elements in the manga are interesting because it has created a new world in the future that seems like something we aren’t even close to comprehending how to create. Gally is a cyborg who has advance technology that makes up her being but yet she has emotions of a human. Similar to Nora you want to learn more about who she is because she has interesting traits of that she is mechanically made and functions mechanically but she believes is human and acts human. One aspect that is difficult to understand i...

Blog Post #9 A Wide World of Comics              For this week, I read all of the Papyrus Albums and thought it was interesting the depiction of the people and the gods and the religion by an artist and writer from Belgium. The way the people in the earlier forms of the comics is interesting because they are very similar to the depictions of the people made during the times of Ancient Egypt. I think is interesting for a European artist to depict them that way because he is sticking true to the depiction of the ancient Egyptian people and he doesn’t seem to be doing this in a way that is offensive to the people. It surprised me to learn that the author and illustrator of the comics was from Europe and not from Egypt because I thought it was done very well and the research that was put into the stories was also very well done.

Blog Post #8 Stereotype and the Ethics of Representation             The representation of African Americans in the book volumes of March move away from a stereotypical portrayal of them that have been used in the past to represent African Americans. The drawings in the novel do not use stereotypical representations by having them being drawn as darker figures in comparison to the other figures. In March, they are drawn as normal people but with slightly darker skin compared to the white people who are drawn into the novel. I think this represents that they truly aren’t that different from each other. The representation of African Americans in the novel is interesting because we also get to see the form of protest that they would practice such as the non-violence sit-ins where they would sit somewhere and if they were asked to leave they would and would refuse to partake in any violence no matter how difficu...