Will Eisner - Week 5

When I first started Contract With God, I did not realize how sad it was going to be. It starts off at such a quick low and in the character development of Frimme Hersh you start feeling sad for him and what is going on with his life so fast. It really is written very well and the imagery used for each page works incredibly well with the writing. Each one of the stories in Contract With God was interesting though and they all had this feeling of sadness that you couldn’t help but feel for some characters and aspects of their lives. After the second one, when I got onto the third I was literally just like waiting for the sad part to come and feel bad for the character. It really is just written with such emotion.

            I think Eisner does a really good job though of mixing the two (story and imagery), but as bigger focus on the story. The imagery wouldn’t even be there if it weren’t for these stories so I think that fact that he just really nails you right in the heart with these stories the artwork just exemplifies the story that much more emotionally. Good work, Will Eisner for hitting the feels on this one.

Comic Books - Week 4

Comic Books. Superman, Batman, The Human Torch, etc. These are the stories and characters I believe people most closely associate comic books with and think about when even simply the word “comic” is spoken. I read a couple of these because honestly these are what most interest my in the comic and graphic narrative world. These are things that I personally grew up being seen turned into movies and I would always want to go see. Comic books with superheroes, I feel, is what most young boys are interested in and I think that this has a profound effect on what we read or even want to see in movies still today. For example I cant even comprehend how many of my friends want to go see that because they've "read the comics" or "seen some of the writing and stories before." The crazy unnatural characters, the fight scenes, and the good guy always winning over the bad evil character. How can you not want to hear about that?

Now, what I found interesting to me are the comics that I haven’t seen (basically any without superheroes). I read some of the other styles such as the Disney comics as well as the EC Comics. It’s interesting to me because I just don’t know why I never saw these. I think they’re just as engaging and good as the superhero comics, but I have never really read any of these.