Saturday, February 20, 2016

The Comic Strip

Out of the several comics we were given in class, I really enjoyed the work of Winsor McCay best of all. I found both Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend and Little Nemo in Slumberland to be beautiful comics, especially in comparison to other comics of the time that we looked at like Krazy Kat. Not that I disliked Krazy Kat, I thought Herriman's work was funny and entertaining, but I think that McCay's strips were more a lot more appealing to me visually, as well as from a storytelling view. 

I found the characters in McCay's strips very interesting and leave you wanting to delve into their lives, especially so with Nemo in Slumberland. This goes back to my last entry on Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics on the subject of readers identifying with  simpler characters, and I believe this is exactly what happens when reading about Nemo's adventures, I mean they really giving you something to latch onto. He's also very cute and innocent, and so of course the reader is going to be concerned about him and so they become inthralled and keep reading.

An artist whose work I've been following for a long time has actually been working on visually developing the Little Nemo in Slumberland story as if it were going to be an animated film, and its really really great stuff! I had never looked at the original strip for this class and I think it's interesting looking back on it with all the things I know now, I'll link it in the bottom!




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