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After reading the Contact with God by Will Eisner, I found this creator interesting to me. Eisner was an illustrator and a writer. The Contact with God was a graphic novel Eisner, which was composed with the balance of words and illustrations. A brief description often provided by the creator and then a pen and ink illustration would be shown to the audience. Besides creating, Eisner did a lot of big contribution to bringing early-stage comic business to mature. Such as giving comic the purpose of education to the public. And, the reason I found Eisner interesting to me because after getting some information, I had this question: that what would the audience identify him as? A writer? An illustrator? Or even maybe a "Revolutionist"? For me, I prefer to identify Eisner as an illustrator.  Reading Eisner's novels very entertaining. Though his writing style might seem unmodern, the beautiful illustration drawn by pen and ink and the vivid shading worked together, bring this

The EC comic is a comic books series from the 50's. There are a lot of special features I have found in this comic book series. Inicially reading these books, I found the books very intense- both in the story side and the art side. I found the story intense because the books contained a lot of violent and agresive information. I believe that happened because the audiences of comic books at that time were  matured and the majority of the audiences were probably older generation. Then I found the art intense because the charater features were very defined and the colors were very bright and solid. Charasters tended to have a lot of details on them- face structure, body anatamy, and gesture. I believe the defining character was because the idea of simplifying wasn't very popular during tht time period. In addition, I believe the printing machanic wasn't advance to produce vivd colors, which is why colors were used to be bright and solid.

After reading the Little Nemo, I think I found a lot of interesting features about early 80's American comic strip. First, I compared the Little Nemo with later comics strips such as the ones from Marvel and DC, I believed the character detail had been increasing. The characters had more human anatomy in the later strips, while in the Little Nemo, a lot of the characters' anatomies were simplified. I believed the details on the character had been increasing through the period of the 80's. Then, the next biggest difference I found is the length of the stories. The Little Nemo were lots of short length stories packed together, while the later strips were built with much longer stories. Therefore the stories in the Little Nemo are less intense and less moral than the later strips because of the limited length of the story. And I believe more and more lengthy stories were developed lately because of the older generation was starting to read comics.

      Understanding Comic is a comic by Scott McCloud. It is a comic that explains the artform--comic. There is one character that directs the viewers and he guids the viewer to visulize the concepts of comic. Begins with history, the protagonist explains the origin of comic with some briefly examples. Then, he goes on deeper to the essential concepts of comic, "icon, simplify, and sequential", with more detailed explainations, images, and illustrations. At the end, the protagonist trys to emphasize the importance of comic to human life. The main character sometime interacts with the item or scene, creating the sense of ironic. That makes this comic very entertaining, even though it is just a documentary about comic.        I enjoy reading this comic because the style. It is really an intersting and useful way to read a comic. The idea of creating this comic which explains the concepts of comic, is really unique. And,  the sense of humor and ironic, even adds on to the "

      Arrival is a comic story from Shuan Tan that contains no words. Because of that, every character's expression, interaction and conversation are conveied through action and illustration. The story is about a man escaps to a new place with his "family" in the suitcase, because terrible thing happens to his hometown. Throughout the entire comic, there are visiable symbles that seem like words, but these symbles can not be recongnize. The new place is full of strange things and rituals, and the protagonist can only draw out or act out what he wants in order to communicate with others. The layout of this comic is very unique: close up shots are usually being drawn in a square box; long shots are usually being drawn in a rectangular box. Plus the illustration, composition, and design, this comic has the style of fantasy.         I found myself related to the protagonist. This entire story is similar to my own experience. I am from another country as well. When I first c