The Wonder Winsor Mccay

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.

The Graphic Narative

When reading the Arrival by Shaun Tan I immediately thought of one of my favorite comics by an artist named Lando. Lando's comic is similar to the arrival because there is no dialoge. In the arrival we follow the immigrants journey to this new land, and we are lost in the land just like him. While with Lando's comic we are thrown into this Alien civilization with no idea of the language spoken in the comic. So our only means of interpreting the story is by actions. Both of these comics do this very easily.

While The Arrival, and Lando's comic had a pretty clear narrative of what was going on. Max Ernst's a Week of Kindess was more abstract. When going around the classroom everybody had a totally different interpretation of the events going on. When trying to interpret the images, it felt like a Roschach test. I'm very certain we learned a lot about each other that day.

To contrast these previous stories we looked at Archie. In class this was the first time I ever read an Archie comic. When reading it I felt this sense of nostalgia of when I was eight. I remember for the longest time I had this idea of what it would be like to be a teenager. Archie felt pretty spot on besides having two lady love interests to what I thought being a teenager was all about. Archie created this clean fun idea of how teenagers in our society should behave. Personally I think the sex, drugs, and rock and roll teenage stereotype is much more exciting to read about now.