Week 3 The Peanuts
This week I had the privilege of reading some old school comics, specifically the peanuts, and I very much enjoyed them. I did not find them like knee-slapping hilarious, but kind of the more haha, exhaling an excessive amount of air out of my nose funny. The humor was very surface level, such as the sign where it says to watch out for children,  and the kids were standing there looking for them. I think because they were so short and snappy, my attention was able to be easily retained. Something I really was drawn to was the style of drawing. Even though it was really simple, it had a high level of appeal, because it was drawn so simply and very very cute. It’s funny, in animation they tell us to specifically not draw with dot eyes because it is harder to identify with the characters. But, because they have dot eyes, its the concept of the icon where I feel like I am identifying with the situation more because I am focusing on the characters less. While reading this I saw that the staging was very, very, simple and the humor was very punchline oriented. I was very easily able to identify their frame orientation and delivery of humor because old school comics are the foundation for a lot of modern meme templates, such as safely endangered. Overall, I really enjoyed it, and now I am very inclined to read a lot of the old school comics such as the Peanuts.

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