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Searchers: Fun Home

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/bechdel/

I thought there was lots of good stuff here. Some of it just explains why the book was written and that sort of thing, but the interview is interesting and the comments from other writers at the top is charming.

Just a nice read, I thought

Searchers-Uzumaki Movie Trailer-Leon Langford

Uzumaki Movie Trailer

Above you’ll find a link to watch the trailer for the Japanese movie, Uzumaki. Obviously there are a number of scenes from the book to be found in the clipshow, especially the hair part. If you search around some more on Youtube you can find the whole movie. Unfortunately the movie doesn’t come with subtitles. It’s an interesting clip, that even comes with snail people, enjoy.

Searcher: Yang and His Life Experiences in American Born Chinese

I stumbled upon this photo gallery during my research for this assignment. Because it’s presented in a photo gallery, I thought it was a much more interactive way to learn more about American Born Chinese. The questions and answers are from an interview with Gene Yang done by America.gov. It won’t let me embed, but if the link doesn’t work, it can be found at:

http://www.america.gov/multimedia/photogallery.html#/4110/gene_yang/

I particularly enjoyed learning more about Yang’s background, which I was curious about after he mentioned in that youtube interview Laura posted that he drew from his own life experiences when creating the stories. I thought his website Humble Comics would have offered enough insight, but I think the questions asked and his responses are interesting. He mentions specific instances in his childhood that inspired parts of the novel and the role religion played, a point Moriah brought up in a First Reader post. Yang also offers his view on modern culture and the impact he thinks it has on the Asian-American community. Towards the end of the gallery, he talks about comics as a medium for self-expression.

A few things I found…(searchers)

Here’s a link to a list of graphic novels recommended by Alan Moore:

http://www.readyourselfraw.com/recommended/rec_alanmoore/recommended_alanmoore.html

which I thought was interesting as we just finished reading some things from him. Maus made the list, an excerpt of what Moore said is as follows:

“Since discovering his work in the mid 70’s, I have been convinced that Art Spiegelman is perhaps the single most important comic creator working within the field and in my opinion Maus represents his most accomplished work to date…”

And I thought the idea of the Holocaust being depicted through different art forms was interesting so here’s a link to a collection of various(paintings, drawings, etc) of the holocaust:

http://art.holocaust-education.net/

Searchers: Watchmen in 5 Panels

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/comics-in-5-panels/3535-watchmen

Here is the briefest of brief summaries you could possibly have of “Watchmen.” It gives a very short description of what some of the characters are like, but in the end it tries to point out a huge flaw with the premise of Adrian’s plan. (Unsuccessfully because it had such a small timeframe to work in). It has no time to explain why Adrian’s plan would ultimately fail, instead simply stating that “a common sense of inter-nation politics” would explain it. I would agree though that unless this alien invasion was to happen again, the countries would essentially forget about the event and move on.

-Colin Kitler

Deconstruction and Realization of The SuperHero

http://www.unm.edu/~ithomson/Hero.pdf

The university of New Mexico had this really awesome PDF file of a short article written about Watchmen and the superheroes within it. It displays the de-familiarization of the normal superhero in our eyes and shows how Watchmen in a way made superheroes not only slightly more popular but also more uncanny and real version of these superheroes. The article hits on points of the deconstruction of the “normal superhero” but also the unhappy realization of fantasy and and fantasy characters.

one of the best points of the articles is that the philosophy of “idea is destroyed by its own realization” can be shown in the superhero, and the realization of the superheroes in Watchmen where “the hero is destroyed by the superhero, who is more heroic than any hero, but whose extreme heroics are no longer recognizable as heroics ” which all in all is the basic concept of Watchmen.

Searchers – An Informative Collegiate Paper on Watchmen

http://watchmenanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/08/wesleyan-university-honors-college_1443.html

This is a thesis paper I came across while searching for Watchmen related things…I think this is a helpful resource because it gives us the thoughts and opinions of another college-level person, but in a formalized way, so it’s not just some kid rambling on about comics. I found it quite informative.

 

Sorry guys, I didn’t know how to make the url into a link 🙁

Methods of Coloring Comics

 After reading chapter eight in Understanding Comics and knowing the visual assault of color I was facing with Watchmen after having read it a few times, I thought color in comics would be a good topic to find a resource on to share with everyone. In my search, I came across this article in a blog post titled Make It Loud: Comics Color, Kevin Nowlan, and Cosmic Depth by blogger Frank Santoro in Color Comics Issue #2. It was posted on the blog for Comics Comics Mag just over a year ago. Like McCloud in chapter eight, the article discusses the three additive primary colors used in comics, red, blue, and green, but the article elaborates further by addressing the process in more detail. Santoro interviews comic artist Kevin Nowlan, who points out some interesting differences between the older methods of coloring comics by hand and the mainstream methods of today such as using programs like Adobe Photoshop. I had a better understanding of the press and plates operation involved in coloring comics and the job of a colorist and a separator from the article and thought it tied in nicely with the reading for Tuesday.