I personally have never really enjoyed comics, I always thought comics at a young age were uninteresting and something boys did. I was by no means reading any other sort of book. Yet when evaluating the comic book I ignored it all together...
What makes a real book? A book is anything you want it to be, bound together or tattered and torn part, our generation was use to books just being biographies, non-fiction and fiction. Yet times are changing. When the movie Sin City was released it brought to live a whole new form of filming, people were ecstatic about this new imaging and creative brought to film. Yet it was inspired by a graphic novel. Many other books as well in the genre of graphic novel are being brought to life through film. This is broadening our generation and allowing us to use our creative minds to better interpret stories.
Graphic novels are the new up and coming way of reading and learning… Or so I hear. So whether or not you are use to comics, or necessarily think of a graphic novel as a comic, this is a better way of using the multi-s to interpret the way you see, hear and experience literature. Despite the fact that Shakespeare may be rolling in his grave because literature has lost its beauty and passion. Times are changing and this is what is captivating the minds of our generation.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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"I always thought comics at a young age were uninteresting and something boys did."
It's interesting how we assign/relegate comic books to a specific gender.
"Despite the fact that Shakespeare may be rolling in his grave because literature has lost its beauty and passion. Times are changing and this is what is captivating the minds of our generation."
Yes...this is really the heart of what I hope we can get to in this class. What is literature...what is art? Who decides what is meaningful?
Great blogging :)
It's only a matter of time until most of the big movies on the silver screen are taken from comics. Heck, it's happening even now. Hollywood seems to be bankrupt on the imagination front and movies based on comics are hot property right now.
Also, about art, to paraphrase Archibald Macleish's poem "Ars Poetica": Art just is. What we dismiss as rubbish today may just be tomorrow's art.
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