Victoria Provost_LMST 340: Literature of Comics and The Graphic Narrative

Blog post #7 Barefoot Gen Reading vs Movie             I initially didn’t read Barefoot Gen Vol. 1 but after we watched the animated movie version of the book I thought I should read it to see how it would compare to the novel version because that is something I always do when movies are created based on books. Reading the novel version and seeing the characters that were used and also not used in the movie and also seeing the style and how they have changed it from the graphic novel version compared to the animation movie. Watching the movie, it had the classic Japanese animation characteristics that I recognize like from watching other Japanese animations such as Pokémon and Studio Ghibli. I think it is interesting that they chose to show it in this style of the movie because it is a very serious subject matter using an art form that isn’t always associated with that type of style. Something I thought was interes...

Blog Post #7 Legitimation of the Comics In high school, I had the chance to read Maus Volume 1 but never got the chance to read Maus Volume 2 so having the opportunity I was very excited. Reading Maus Volume 2 the relationship between Art Spiegelman and his father seems to have evolved from the first one with the interaction between them and how they have a more difficult relationship. The interaction between Spiegelman and his father is very interesting because their relationship is full of moments where it is difficult for them to be together and talk to each other which is super difficult for what Spiegelman is trying to accomplish with his book. The relationship between father and son contrasts differently from the relationships that Vladek Spiegelman's father has with other people in the book even during such a difficult time. In the book Vladek Spiegelman talks about his many connections with other people during his time in the concentration camp and how they were ...

Blog Post #6 Underground Comics              The Adventures of Fat Freddy’s Cat deal with subjects that are not overtly talked about in a humorous way. Opening the document one of the first comics is about Freddy the cat who is personified to appear as an important figure who is called to the white house to launch an attack that will attack the immune system causing people to turn them gay. Freddy lands in a nudist colony and proceeds to kill them all believing it is the group that is releasing the toxin and continues to kill everyone and himself but is still alive due to having nine lives. The comic ends and there seems to be no remorse or consequences for what he had done. The other comics focus on such issues of murder, adultery, the use of drugs, and child soldiers which are subjects that are always talked about but not put into a funny sense. These comics seem to deal with subject matter that is usually either not talked about or if i...

Blog post #5 The Graphic Novel             Reading Blankets by Craig Thompson I was worried that it wouldn’t be an enjoyable read to me and it would take too long for me to read. The story was something very interesting to me because it is something that a reader can connect to extremely easily whether dealing with religion and relationships. I felt I connected with Blankets because it is something I have gone through in my life of dealing with relationships but also with dealing with the loss of religion and worrying about going down a wrong path by doing that. Once I left an elementary school where I was forced to go to church and to study religion as part of my studies attending a private Catholic school, I began to stop believing in God and all the religion I studied. Reading about him worrying about the reactions of his parents because they are overly religious is interesting to me because I had that same worry because ...