Antonio's lit and media of comics blog

Week  11: So, I read Why I Hate Saturn this week because I’ve never been to Saturn and I wanted to know what’s to hate. Sadly, It was not about Saturn. However, It immediately snagged my attention because of its choice of design. The first thing you should know is that it is beautiful. The presentation of it is really unique, and to me, it kinda looks like the whole comic is on a fancy french menu because it’s pink and has a very intricate border. So, the overall presentation was very appealing and easy to read. What was really cool was the way the text was designed outside the frame. I really like this aspect because the drawings are very beautiful, and are drawn in a bold sharpie style that reminds me of storyboards. Because of this stylistic choice, the classic comic speech bubbles did not get in the way of the beautiful drawings. The order of the text was also very well designed, and the dialogue was always very neat and concise, which reinforced the design by making it look mo

Week 10:  This week, I had the chance to read Alita Battle Angel. Before, I had only known Alita from the CG movie that came out in 2019, which I wasn't a huge fan of because of the uncanny valley of huge anime eyes on realistic people. So, it was really interesting for me to give it another chance. Thankfully, I loved it a lot. I feel like the art style really compliments the dystopian world and adds to the whole intense tone of the reading. I think it is really awesome how they use the hatch shading to elevate the intensity and dynamics of the drawing. I feel like it helps to indicate tone and movement. I’ve seen it prevalent in a lot of manga, and it's a stylistic choice I really admire.  I talk about it almost every week, but an awesome thing I noticed was the choice of panel shape they used in certain pages. Yukito Kishiro decided to make some of the panels slant into each other, and it made the frames really flow into each other, which helped the story. I used to b

Week 9: This week I had the chance to read Jodorowsky Moebius’, What is a Above. It hooked me right away because of its graphic style, and its bold and robust sense of color. In many classic comics and manga, there is heavy use of cross-hatch shading to emphasize tense or dynamic moments. However, in What is Above, I noticed that Jodorowsky Moebius uses very graphic line work in order to highlight these same moments. The graphic line work is then reinforced by flat color, which makes the graphic linework really pop. Visually, its strongest quality is each panel's sense of color theory. There's a strong use of complementary and analogous colors throughout the comic, which makes it very visually appealing. In terms of the story, I liked it a lot. For any Guardians of the Galaxy fans, I feel like this reading is perfect for them. The whole world-building is a bit random and outlandish, however, it is not one that pulls me out of the story. In fact, it is quite the oppos