Comics do offer stereotype under the race representation. Many comics deal with hero stories. However, the characteristics of the heros varies differently according to the character's race. Luke Cage is one of the clear example that, comics do offer stereotype. He is black hero who happens to earn his power while he is in the prison. And he had very aggressive characteristics with anger. His character was reflecting time frame of the Cvil Right Movements and representing angry black community who wanted changes.The stereotypes through which American popular culture often interprets and represents racial identity operate not only as tools of defamation but also as vehicles for far more subtle manipulations of race. Comics often tend to create characteristics based on it's race. The characteristics of character will be decide on the stereotype of it's race to play safe for the readers. Especially for black characters in comics always would contain some kind of violence as it's characteristic. Because race of character should meet the stereotype in order to sell to readers.
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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