For this week of comic lit I focused mostly on reading work from Winsor Mccay. His comic Little Nemo in Slumberland is a perfect example of liking a comic just for it's style. Little Nemo is very well drawn and has a lot of hints of the style of circus posters. The original format of these comics are giant newsprint size, so it's very eye catching The stories are not very interesting, and end in the same way every time. Which makes it perfect for a newspaper because of how easy it is to digest, and jump in at any time to the comic.
I've noticed that most newspaper comics give viewers either this quick one liner joke, or the illusion of something incredibly complex. I believe that nemo's visuals that are overly ornate and complex gives the comic a false sense of deepness.
Basically Little Nemo is the equivalent to liking a super hot woman, with not much going on upstairs.
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