The Adventures of Tin Tin: The
Calculus Affair
Tin Tin was of course the first comic book that
caught my attention. It is a story I grew up with and was something a close
friend of mine loved who recently passed. The tales of Tin Tin truly do
captivate you, with its simplistic style, mystery-comedy-adventure driven story
line, and bold selection of colors! Even though what drives the plot in
this story wouldn’t be considered extravagant to most people, it is still very
captivating. I plan on finishing up reading the comic; I’d like to find out the
source that is causing objects to shatter.
The Vault of Horror # 36
Next I read The Vault of Horror, horror stories
never cease to catch my attention and are one of my favorite genres in comics,
graphic novels, and manga. While it didn’t stereo-typically play with common
traits of horror, the strips themselves held a lot of captions as if to further
convey the feelings of the characters such as the sweatiness from their palms,
or a simile. Artistically, the comic book carries through with very nice ink
work and was very detailed. I plan to use this as a source for inking
techniques!
Carl Barks Paintings/ Uncle Scrooge in The Crown of
The Mayas
I decided to look at both the general artwork
of the Barks while reading one of his comics. It is definitely good to look
further into a comic artist’s work! Similarly to Tin Tin, Carl’s works carried
on a simplistic and colorful style and with the two created his own little
‘universe’. To be honest though I’ve never once during my childhood have never
picked up a Donald Duck comic or watched Duck Tales. However I still can
easily recognize these characters due to other cartoons they starred in. When
reading I found the comic very humorous while it was making fun of itself to an
extent. I guess you could say it broke the 4th wall in that aspect.
Reading this post, I would say its a well thought out post regarding the readings that you have done and the observation is well spot on, in regards to Carl Banks Paintings and the uncle scrooge graphic novel. Having said that, i would also like to read a bit more in detail as to how it impacts you personally. As you mentioned in the post for Tin Tin that how its connects with you due something that happend to your close friend. I guess what I am trying to say is that a bit more in detail as how you connect to it.
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