tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061369906098086072012-02-18T17:41:50.242-05:00A blog for and about comic books and American history for HIS 235: American Graphic Media at Rollins College.Julian Chamblisshttps://profiles.google.com/100067256707632050477noreply@blogger.comBlogger4771100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-17202990913108655402011-12-16T16:20:00.000-05:002011-12-16T16:20:44.849-05:00

Joseph Henry Simon: October 11, 1913 – December 14, 2011 | The Comics Journal

Julian Chamblisshttps://profiles.google.com/100067256707632050477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-78343053527164705402011-12-02T10:16:00.000-05:002011-12-02T10:17:23.636-05:00

What is the future for the superhero? The future of the superhero in my opinion us a very bright one. With films like Iron Man, Thor and Captain America opening up the Marvel Universal, Marvel can expand and bring out more super heroes. I believe comics can make a comeback based on in recent years the “nerd” like culture has become “cool”. We see this in shows like Big Bang Theory, even in rap

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The future of the superhero is up to the fans and the industry to decide. Since 2000, the superhero genre became part of a more advanced transmedia experience. Cartoons, video games, backpacks, lunchboxes, schoolbooks, movie sagas, and classes are now dedicated to various forms of the history and future of the superhero. The recent trend for the 90s generation has brought back some relevance to

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I believe the superhero will continue to be symbolic characters. Comics have been around for a long time and there is no reason that they should die out anytime soon. Superheroes are what young people look up to and that will never change. The comics make the reader love and want to read more. Also, with all of this new technology for making movies, a ton of superhero movies have been being

Danie_0510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-31061213873047085992011-12-02T06:05:00.003-05:002011-12-02T06:12:14.072-05:00

Just like everything else, its going to become a broader field. Our societies obsession with them isn't going to dry up or anything. web series like the LXD and Misfits are creating new classic heroes for the next generation. The boom of comic book movies that have come out really don't hurt, I feel like the super hero itself is going to branch into other genres more then before, i mean have you

Tara Joy Napolitanonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-47930480014998546322011-12-02T05:35:00.000-05:002011-12-02T05:36:56.251-05:00

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I believe that the future of the super hero will be very different. Future super heroes will not be as flawless as the ones today. I believe that some super heroes will come from the "dark side" and turn to do great. I find it interesting that super heroes and villains never switch sides. People in our everyday lives go from being good to bad people or bad to good. This concept is simple to

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Predicting the future is a very hard thing to do, but in my opinion the super hero has a bright future. Recently the super hero has been making a comeback in the movie industry. Creators are realizing the comic book era is starting to die out and different forms of media are taking over. Just about every super hero movie that has been released has done well in sales and even has one in the top

Christiansen_0711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-19619735501422864622011-12-01T21:48:00.002-05:002011-12-01T21:56:24.713-05:00

It is always hard to tell what the future holds, and the same goes for the super hero. It is possible the super hero could die off and be lost for years and possibly even decades. Right now it does not seem like that is going to happen. Recently there has been a new surge for the super hero, mainly coming from movies. In the past 5 years there have been about a dozen super hero movies that

Why Blame Comics for Societal Failurenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-32375795643813351592011-12-01T20:23:00.000-05:002011-12-01T20:30:54.898-05:00

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The feature of the Superhero is difficult to predict. However, every character and superheroes have been changed into what society is needed. Especially, character like superhero has great influential power on our society, and it tells us what is lacking in our society and reflection of people's thirst of change in society. Therefore, in the 2oth century, there were a lot of Superheroes with

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Diaz_0113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-47406653738855996892011-11-18T08:27:00.000-05:002011-11-18T08:28:38.856-05:00

In the 1960s Comics had a great fan base. Students that were more commonly in college were reading comics such as Spiderman and Superman. These comics appealed to the time of change and rebellion. Next came the 1970s, which was a pretty sad time for comics. This decade was considered a lost decade. Comics were in a slump because they were lacking in finding a new reader base. This was a major

Jack Allennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-73510836768315644392011-11-18T07:46:00.000-05:002011-11-18T07:47:59.694-05:00

The 1980's were a period of drastic change for comic books. Whereas in the previous decades, comics had struggled with their cartoonish and childlike manner, during the 80's they turned towards a more dark and mature route. The change occurred for several reasons, but one of the most important was that this was used to address changes in readership during the later part of the cemetery. Comics

Lauren Tierneynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-53090226207180222662011-11-18T07:34:00.002-05:002011-11-18T07:50:45.888-05:00

With the fallout of Vietnam, the continuing threat of mutually assured destruction, and other socio-political issues spilling over from the 70s into the 80s a darker tone in comics was inevitable. But that is just the backdrop for comics. Comics had to adapt their content for the direct market. Their readership was aging, and so, they had to adapt the content to reflect their aging readers.

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During the 1980s comic books saw a drastic change in the way they were written. In the times leading up to the 1980s, super heroes such as Batman were almost treated as a friendly, silly character. He would wear bright colored suits while fighting all sorts of weird creators and aliens. This was not the same Batman that was around when it was created during the 1980s. The reason why Batman

Why Blame Comics for Societal Failurenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-74921842147071001582011-11-18T06:59:00.001-05:002011-11-18T06:59:40.623-05:00

Comics became “dark” in the 80’s for two main reasons. This first is and ageing market. Comics customers have become loyal buyers instead of fast loyal kids. Fandoms were empires of preferences and predilections that writers had to work in. the biggest goal for a comics writer would be to write a story so good fans of another hero would need to pick it up. On the lowest levels they needed to

Tara Joy Napolitanonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-72000287727261440422011-11-18T03:25:00.000-05:002011-11-18T03:26:36.170-05:00

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Comics books in the 1980's. Were different from what they are now. Comics now have a lighter tone to them, Comics made for kids will have light happy endings. comic books in the 1980s had a much darker tone to them. There was a lot more violence in the books then there were in the 1950s partiallly because of the Comic Book Codes. But also in the 1980s violence rose, as well as druhttp://

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kaske_1112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-70625278364653128632011-11-17T23:14:00.002-05:002011-11-17T23:24:06.347-05:00

After the Comics Code was introduced, all comic books put that seal on the front cover. It was an indication that that comic book adhered not only to the rules of the comic book world, but also to the unwritten rules of society. They did not have overly sexual content or drug use or anything of that nature that the culture of the United States at the time would frown upon. In the 1980s however,

Mike Horannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-2564673461678369922011-11-17T22:54:00.002-05:002011-11-17T22:57:35.490-05:00

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    In the 1980s, American culture entered a time of confusion, despite the efforts of the government. Sexual, scientific, and political revolutions made the 1980s a social scramble, and became more frank about the issues from the preceding decades. Therefore, the 1980s called for a darker approach to the superhero industry. Decades beforehand, the comics of the 1960s and 70s introduced

Cole_0526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-83630270685464865932011-11-17T21:32:00.000-05:002011-11-17T21:33:14.461-05:00

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Diaz_0113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-2019087278908413442011-11-17T20:14:00.002-05:002011-11-17T20:24:47.536-05:00

Comics in the 1980's started to become darker and take on a different look. Comics always had drug and violence references in them, but during this decade we see those references taken to another level. The main reason we see this increase in drug and violence references is the reason we see any other change in comics, the culture in the United States changed and in particular drug use was

smith_0826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-86966961080821315742011-11-17T18:53:00.001-05:002011-11-17T18:53:54.317-05:00

Comics becoming “darker” during the 1980’s, I think had to do a lot with the time period. During the 80’s drugs and violence began to rise tremendously. Cocaine became a popular among celebrities and the wealthy and crack cocaine took over the inner cities making and created drug wars. The drug problem became the Reagan Administration launched the war on drugs in order to put a stop to the up

Christiansen_0711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-30028870127458155122011-11-17T18:22:00.002-05:002011-11-17T18:34:22.905-05:00

Comics always have been contain and showed violence. However, it is noticeably clear that there were increase of "darkness " darkness in terms of containing more violence theme and showing more graphic image of the crime and fight seen. There were reason for comic became more darker. Comics are reflection of society, and it is easy to see what was issues in that time when you look at comics

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Social relevance has always been an important aspect to the comic book Super hero plot line. even in their golden age, WW2 comics dealt with the war and anxieties about it at home. They showed the strong wall of nationalism and the scary realizations of many soldiers, in there own misgivings about morality. It is no surprise that superhero's would have to update themselves as times worries and

Tara Joy Napolitanonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-52523500831001996512011-11-11T01:38:00.001-05:002011-11-11T01:38:37.800-05:00

Discuss the impact of socially relevance stories in the late 1960s. In the 1960 many social changes were developing in society. There was the civil rights movement, as well as the women’s rights movement. Because of both of these social changes the respective groups being discriminated against began to gain rights. One of the ways these groups are discriminated again is reputation in media. In

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The 1960's was a rough and confusing time for the United States. During the late 1960's, the main event or social issue that was taking place and was the topic of everyday life in America was the war in Vietnam. Because the war was so heavily opposed, people rioting and protesting were common in city streets and college campuses. This sparked a whole new era in America. This era in america

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“My life as Spider-man is probably as dangerous doing as any but I’d rather face a hundred super-villains than toss it away by getting hooked on hard drugs!”. This quote for Spiderman is very relevant to the times of the late 1960's. It is very blunt about how the man jumping from the roof was high and that time it was wrong to be high, even though it was a normality in the late 1960's with

baker_0308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-60826584119814379772011-11-11T00:16:00.002-05:002011-11-11T00:18:20.156-05:00

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Comics had an important impact on the culture of the 1960's, especially the late 1960's, with their discussion of socially relevant themes and ideas. As in all era's, comics in the 60s reflected the attitudes and opinions of society. What made this time period unique was the direct attitude and abrupt approach used when broaching these sensitive subjects. Ideas and themes, such as drug use, the

Lauren Tierneynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-23004105831019320692011-11-10T23:23:00.001-05:002011-11-10T23:24:38.921-05:00

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    The late 1960s brought an insurgence of the "baby boomers", a large populous of children born from 1945-1950. Now in their late teens and 20s, this generation sees the flaws and dangers in the Vietnam War, nuclear war, and the restraints of civil inequity. As a result, the media followed the counterculture. Movies like Bonnie & Clyde (1967) and Easy Rider (1969) were successful in emulating

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During the late 1960's, the main event or social issue that was taking place and was the topic of everyday life in America was the war in Vietnam. Because the war was so heavily opposed, people rioting and protesting were common in city streets and collge campuses. This sparked a whole new era in America, and like with everything else, the comic book industry followed. Because peace was so

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Comic is reflection of society. Every era comic deal with social issues, problems, and social norms. 1960's was no exception, during the 60's United States was going through many events such as Vietnam war over see and protest against war in the United States. Also, it was time of hippies movements and fighting against drug. In 1960's hippies and drugs were the biggest social issues in the united

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In terms of race, comic books certainly offer stereotypes. In the comic book timeline, we have seen a prevalant source of stereotypes. During the 1910's and 1920's, when the comic book industry was essentially started, racial stereotypes were excepted as the social norm, which is why they were often seen in comics during this time. As with most other issues in America, the comic book industry

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During the 1960s, the United States was involved in conflicts in Vietnam. On United States soil, protestors flooded common areas of colleges and city streets. These protestors were the ones who formed the hippy movement in the United States. These times were all about peace and war was far from what any one wanted. Drugs became extremely popular during the hippy movement. This can be seen in

Why Blame Comics for Societal Failurenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-10820088633520917952011-11-10T20:18:00.000-05:002011-11-10T20:19:09.322-05:00

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In Terms of Race Do Comic Books Offer Stereotypes? In terms of race comic books do offer stereotypes. But when the comic book characters were first created it was not intentional. The creators were well intentioned liberals, trying to make progressive steps for minorities in comic books. The exaggerated characters created became offensive in most characters. Comic books are very concentrated

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Comic books do offer stereotypes in terms of race. As much as I would like to deny and argue that comic book do not offer stereotypes, I would be lying; although they offer few stereotypes about African Americans, they are not above offering stereotypes in times of war: WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War. In those comics, they characters were depicted as evil, stupid, yellow characters with

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In terms of race, comic books most definitely offer stereotypes. Comic books often follow the stereotypes of the current times and it does the same with race. One of the most prevalent cases of racial stereotypes in comic books comes from the stories of Luke Cage. Cage was the first black super hero to be published in comic books and his background story is extremely stereotypical. The story

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To understand if comics offer stereotypes, we have to know the definition. A stereotype is a popular belief about specific social groups or types of individuals, or a perception that is perpetuated by a social group. Every social group has a stereotype attached to it, so they are not exclusive. However, there are exceptions to every stereotype, due to factors like upbringing, aspirations, etc. In

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in my opinion, comics do not offer racial stereotypes. As with all media, comic merely reflect the opinions of the time period. However, this does not mean that they don't help perpetuate stereotypes. As with many topics, comics can be said to present a concentrated reflection of societies opinions. These reflections can be seen in all the different aspects of comics, but especially in the

Lauren Tierneynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-84310468704016056982011-11-03T23:23:00.002-04:002011-11-03T23:36:49.151-04:00

In terms of race I do believe that comics hold stereotypes. Race is something that signifies a particular thing about a person and each race has its general stereotypes. As we find in one of our readings, it says basically that race is there to define qualities about a person; “A way of speaking, a look, a personality trait, an emotion is given to a character that allows readers to label,

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I do believe that comics do show stereotypes in terms of race. Every race has their own stereotypes that they are associated with.  For many characters these stereotypes are what distinguish them from the other characters, Mr. Davenport states, “A way of speaking, a look, a personality trait, an emotion is given to a character that allows readers to label, recognize, and identify them”.

Christiansen_0711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-67257349377282163212011-11-03T21:01:00.002-04:002011-11-04T07:47:01.390-04:00

Yes, Comics are a reflection of their author’s perceptions of society and therefore, if an author either buys into a pre-conceived (inaccurate) idea of what a race acts like then it would be hard to create a well rounded character of the misrepresented ethnicity. The original Black superhero Black Panther was the King of an advanced African nation that had been unspoiled by imperialism. I don’t

Tara Joy Napolitanonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-75616138774629396412011-11-03T20:44:00.001-04:002011-11-03T20:44:56.619-04:00

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Since the beginning of comics, the industry has as a genre not been very diverse in terms of race and ethnicity. Even in the crowds and background of comics the characters were all white, so the chance portray racial stereotypes wasn’t there. Comics began introducing different races slowly starting with having them in the background, and then they began including them as sidekicks. After

Grull_1020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-68410256884907460962011-11-03T20:12:00.003-04:002011-11-03T20:46:46.538-04:00

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

golfertaenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-76623187204835676052011-11-03T18:35:00.002-04:002011-11-03T20:28:05.999-04:00

Comics without a doubt display stereotypes for different races, but it is not only races that are depicted in that way. In fact it seems almost as if every character in comics are built upon their own stereotypes. From Davenports reading, he states that characters are commonly identified and labeled by certain things such as ways of speaking, emotions, and other personality traits. These

MaxAchesonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-90484338415161639662011-11-03T17:32:00.001-04:002011-11-03T17:32:58.670-04:00

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Diaz_0113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-87021564014897752432011-11-03T14:51:00.000-04:002011-11-03T14:52:36.797-04:00

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I do not believe that comics are inherently sexist. The current portrayals of characters in comics tends towards being very stereotypical towards the genders, but this does not mean it is inherent. When considering the role of gender in comics, it is important to put it in context of the time period in which the comic was written. In modern times in particular, comic stories are beginning to show

Lauren Tierneynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-51432507064317961392011-10-21T06:09:00.001-04:002011-10-21T06:09:55.700-04:00

In the 40’s and 50’s not only did comic book writers treat their female characters as objects of lust and annoyance, but they simplified their goals in life down to children and marriage. We can partially blame this on the comics books code and society, because most women were starting families with their husbands and the societal norm was more likely to buy comic books that

Tara Joy Napolitanonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-44688504459791495072011-10-21T05:45:00.003-04:002011-10-21T06:01:29.161-04:00

Comics must be inherently sexist. Despite the influx of female readers, there are just more male readers of comics. I don't want to stereotype, but comics fans generally have problems with women, and therefore, comics objectify women to play off of male reader's fantasies. Lets look at a few female characters in comics: Bat-Girl, Bat-Woman, Supergirl, and Wonder Woman. After Frederick Wortham

Schef_1203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-68536850899542716782011-10-21T01:44:00.002-04:002011-10-21T01:56:36.615-04:00

When looking at comics they are most certainly male oriented. The reason for this could be that the majority of comic book writers when this medium was exploding were men. It was only until wonder woman when women began to actually have a significant influence on the hero role. Even then wonder woman had very sexist ties to her story. The writers included underlying messages with this new hero.

Jack Allennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-83800454207607422312011-10-21T01:18:00.000-04:002011-10-21T01:18:06.817-04:00

Whether we like it or not comics as an overall in comic history have been sexist. But as time has passed comics have been becoming alot less sexist. Women used to be portayed as the average housewife doing all the right things. When women have a powerful role in a comic book they are always portayed as a sex symbol. This is inherently sexist and offensive to alot of women. Some people may say

kaske_1112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-212268213420153802011-10-21T01:14:00.003-04:002011-10-21T01:26:39.339-04:00

Over the years, cartoonists and writers alike have been asked (and accused) of publications like comic books and pulp magazines are sexist towards women. In past publications, comics did have sexist qualities, but sexism never became an inherent part of the comic book culture, frequent as it was (and is). Ever since "jungle heroes" like "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" came into existence,

Cole_0526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-30736049648579001852011-10-20T23:26:00.002-04:002011-10-20T23:48:39.449-04:00

During the time period that comics first became a form of published media, the roll of women in society was much different than it is today. Women today hold very prominent roles in society including the government, celebrities, CEOs of large businesses and corporations, as well as in Police Departments and even the military. If the first edition of Wonder Woman came out today, society would

Mike Horannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-45143742592352880732011-10-20T22:10:00.002-04:002011-10-20T22:15:22.963-04:00

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I would say that in some ways comic books are sexist, but not entirely. Comic books do not feature women in their comic books as much as they feature men and that is apparent to people who do not even read comic books. Even when women are featured as super heroes in comic books they are portrayed as weaker humans. For example in the Fantastic Four the Invisible Girl is called the Invisible

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To a lot of people comics come off at a big sexist industry, in my opinion I think they are inadvertently sexist. I think a lot of the writing and male domination in the industry had a lot to do with the time period in which the comic was written. In the 1930’s into the late 1940’s when comics were in their golden age, women didn’t have a big role in society. They started to work jobs during the

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Danie_0510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-21232643505801198352011-10-20T20:17:00.000-04:002011-10-20T20:18:00.134-04:00

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Diaz_0113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-76269464373449267582011-10-20T20:03:00.002-04:002011-10-20T20:22:27.923-04:00

Comics had been and still is understanding as sexist. The reason being is that all the comics are based on mostly male readers. Comics such as superheroes, crime, horror, and violence comics are targeted for the male readers not female readers. It might be obvious result because most female do not read comics as much as male. Therefore, comic industries had to create comics mainly for male

golfertaenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-10960629247012743042011-10-20T12:34:00.002-04:002011-10-20T17:06:59.528-04:00

In my opinion, comic books were and still can be considered sexist. From the creation of the first comics, the stories have always been geared and set up for the male reader. It was not until several decades after they started producing comics that the first major female character, wonderwoman, made an appearance. Because comics were already setup with the mindset that their readers were going to

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stowe_0604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-88976356153188162292011-10-07T07:33:00.002-04:002011-10-07T07:44:41.263-04:00

Because of readership, comics have typically been at the forefront of social transformation since their inception in the golden age. This did not change in the 60's with the silver age. Spider-man was witness to a protest on a college campus for better housing. Other comics were portraying the Vietnam War in a patriotic way, but with hindsight, we can say that those comics were actually quite

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I don't think that comics were at the forefront of social change in the 1960's. They were certainly a reflection on the current social situation, but I feel that to say they were at the forefront would imply a more active role. Comics for much of the the 1960's were still influenced by and recovering from the censorship of the 1950's and the Comics Code. They had to work very hard to get away

Lauren Tierneynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-37255393457385949842011-10-07T07:05:00.001-04:002011-10-07T07:05:48.407-04:00

Comics where neither at the forefront of social transformation, nor did they lag behind. They simply had a mini revolution of their own to update into what was emerging as the new American values, creating and updating characters to fit the new standards of the American dream and American normalcy. DC comics did this by changing some of its older characters origins, and changing

Tara Joy Napolitanonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-7904465196692012622011-10-07T01:53:00.001-04:002011-10-07T01:53:57.353-04:00

Where comics at the forefront of social transformation or lagging behind in the 1960s?When asked were comics at the forefront of social transformation or lagging behind in the 1960s I would have to say it’s a little of both. Comics were not the front of behind, they were mainly at the side of the social transformation. I say this because I don’t believe comic were behind the social

Tanyh_0623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-42629769470435811962011-10-07T01:33:00.002-04:002011-10-07T01:56:06.309-04:00

Comics are typically a response to social situations that have happened or happening today. So in terms of the comic's relation to the 1960's they were strictly talking about what was going on in the time. I do not believe that Comics are ever on the forefront of the social change, but rather a necessity that society finds during the time. An example of this would be the need for a hero in the

Jack Allennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-39017821964380616792011-10-07T00:29:00.002-04:002011-10-07T01:03:10.322-04:00

If you were to look at the social transformation of the 1960's, I am sure that comics were at the forefront of this transformation. Not only were the comics interesting to read and a new sense of medium, but the comics did relate to topics happening around that time period. Wars, as they have always been present in comics, again were present in the 60's with Vietnam. Comics were being revamped

baker_0308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-38855056294049592902011-10-06T23:31:00.001-04:002011-10-06T23:31:50.516-04:00

Comic books, like science fiction, often wanted to predict the future (i.e. the cover of Captain America #1 practically declaring war before the United States was even involved in World War I). The connection to science and modernism always kept the interest for most comic books. During the 1960s, the times were almost radical enough to be a science fiction. The fear from the Cold War in America

Cole_0526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-63926015834008607062011-10-06T23:30:00.003-04:002011-10-06T23:30:16.619-04:00

Comic books in the 1960’s were certainly at the forefront of social transformation. Comics in the 60’s used many topics and events that were around during that time period. They used currents events in their stories to keep their readers interested and active in reading their comics. The cold war and Vietnam War were common topic written about in comics during the 60’s. These common topics kept

Christiansen_0711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-20537906885846842262011-10-06T22:53:00.001-04:002011-10-06T22:55:48.817-04:00

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I think that comics were very much in the forefront of social transformation during the 1960s. This can be seen throughout the many new comic book series that the soon to be Marvel Comics was putting out at the time. These new superheroes were not the archetype perfect superheroes that people were used to seeing during the Golden Age of comics; they were very human and had the normal desires

Grull_1020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-4599042422727557202011-10-06T21:49:00.002-04:002011-10-06T22:09:07.672-04:00

Comic books during the 1960's were definitely in the forefront due to what the plot of the stories were based on. Just like in most literary works, comics during the 1960's reflected what was going on during the current times. During the 1960's there was great social unrest due to the Vietnam War. People began to protest the war and this was depicted in a Spiderman comic where college kids

Why Blame Comics for Societal Failurenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-31886009059413267072011-10-06T20:09:00.002-04:002011-10-06T20:33:43.244-04:00

During the transition into the 1960's and basically throughout the decade, comics were at the forefront of social transformation. This was for several reasons, starting with the large number of comic book topics dealing with real current events around the world. A lot of these just barely slipped by the comic code of 1952, such as comics dealing with issues from the Cold War and also the Vietnam

MaxAchesonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-90773045303126060672011-10-06T20:07:00.001-04:002011-10-06T20:07:56.075-04:00

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Comics were at the forefront of social transformation in the 1960's. The reason this is true is because the comics were paralleling what was going on in the real world. Stan Lee's Spiderman exemplified this by having a lot of current issues tied into the plots. Spiderman as Peter Parker would often run into college age students protesting for an issue that they would actually be protesting for in

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In my opinion, comics were at the forefront of social transformation in the US in the 1960's. However, comics were not exactly the "go to" form of news about social issues, especially with the television being a new form for news and entertainment. With all that being said, some comics were able to stay up with the times. Marvel Comics was consistently good at this, creating stories that were

smith_0826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506136990609808607.post-33663598932161414732011-10-06T16:54:00.001-04:002011-10-06T16:54:57.476-04:00

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In my opinion, anything that goes into the public media could and have a possibility of being forefront of social reform. Comics were somewhat forefront of the social reform in the 1960s. However, comics have clear differences compare to Television and other media. Although, comics deal with many social issues, and cultural problems they did not tell directly to the public. Mega comics company

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In some respects, the comics of the 1960s were spot-on with their storylines and themes in relating to their readers and growing their fanbase, but in others, they were still lagging behind. Marvel did a great job gaining new readers and expanding the popularity of comic books in this decade. They did this by making the storylines more relatable to the people who would be reading them. Superhero

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During the 1950’s the comic book industry in America was a bit misguided and lost. There was no longer a fraternal bond between comic book writers, there was now a competition between them to be the best writer out there. Comic book editors were trying to come up with new ways to draw their readers in during a post war era that lacked potential villains for superheroes to fight. Comic books

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