Comic books are often blamed for societal failure. Comics
are the perfect excuse for a child's bad behavior. Comic books are often violent
and very influential. Kids these days look for role models and some of the role
models they find happen to be in comics. Parents also hate to place blame on
themselves for their children acting out. This is why they look towards comics
to blame. It seems like no one ever fesses up to any of their mistakes and
people look for a reason to cover them up. Comics cannot be continued to cover
up or mistakes. We need to start getting our acts together and realize we are
the ones who need to take responsibility for our actions. If society is that
influenced by comics we definitely have a major problem.
To begin with, I really do like the idea of reading a comic about comics. I think it's a great idea and it's very well executed. As I was reading the first two chapters, I was surprised at how many examples there were of art in recent (and ancient, in some cases) history that are variations of "sequential visual art" and thus the foundations of modern comics. I'd never even thought about it before and it was hard to believe how many different kinds there were. I also love all the discussion about how our human brains automatically interpret certain images in a specific way, how we see others constantly but we identify ourselves when we look at cartoons, and how inanimate objects automatically becomes extensions of our bodies. The pyramid of styles was very interesting too as a way to conceptualize and almost graph or "place" a specific art style in comics. In Comic Book Nation , I enjoyed reading about the evolution of early comics from "funnies...
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