tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post6774097387246468532..comments2024-03-21T19:12:11.065-07:00Comments on Every Day Is Like Wednesday: May 10th's Meanwhile in Las Vegas...Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-46221455599606380782007-05-11T13:19:00.000-07:002007-05-11T13:19:00.000-07:00Switching over to another issue you raised--women ...Switching over to another issue you raised--women or girls reading superhero comics. While student teaching in a 4th grade classroom I noticed a good percentage of girls interested in superhero collections I brought in. One 10 year old was totally into Ghost Rider and Silver Surfer. I think the movies may be leading young girls to superheroes. The question then becomes, will the comics that young girls get their hands on, increase or decrease their interest in superhero comic books?DJKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09351090279465024185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-17973815102216879722007-05-11T08:29:00.000-07:002007-05-11T08:29:00.000-07:00Mory,Yeah, maybe I shoulda wrote "Palestinian terr...Mory,<BR/><BR/>Yeah, maybe I shoulda wrote "Palestinian territories"...or "the Middle East"...or, actually, "Bosnia," and avoided the whole thing, since that's the setting of Sacco's <I>other</I> big work of autobio journalism in graphic novel form.<BR/><BR/>Yes, there's no internationally recognized country as Palestine. Whether it exists or not probably depends on who you ask, although it's a whole murkier issue than even if it <I>should</I> exist, which is murky enough already. <BR/><BR/>I used the word simply because that's what Sacco entitled his graphic novel, <I>Palestine</I>. <BR/><BR/>Since it was an arbitrary choice on my part, I should probably edit it...I'll wait till I have my morning coffee though, as I'm barely in any shape to contemplate superheroes at this point, let alone geopolticis.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Tony,<BR/><BR/>Good point. Carlson's post compared superhero comics to romance novels. The former is for boys, the latter is for girls. She's certainly right talking demographics, but it seems weird to me to talk about gender and genre across media like that. <BR/><BR/>I'm a fan of the medium (rather than a type of genre) because...well damn, that is a tough question, isn't it. I just like the fusion of drawn art and prose in the service of a story, I like the film-like storytelling of comics fused wit the book-likeness consumption experience of comics.<BR/><BR/>Personally, I think I do folow certain genres from media to media--I like high school melodramedies, wheter it's manga, <I>90210</I> or <I>She's All That</I>, and superhero stories, whether it's in comics, <I>Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends</I> or <I>Spider-Man</I> movies. (But maybe then it's the characters?)<BR/><BR/>Damn, a lot to think about in this thread!Calebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-57895395894756017512007-05-11T05:45:00.000-07:002007-05-11T05:45:00.000-07:00>it seems like a comic-to-comic comparison makes m...>it seems like a comic-to-comic comparison makes more sense than a comics-to-prose or comics-to-film comparison<BR/><BR/>Can you elaborate on this?<BR/><BR/>Sometimes I think I'd like to see comics compared to other media. Perhaps we should compare them as stories or genres. I wonder why we get so hung up on the medium.<BR/><BR/>For example, if you like romance novels, why wouldn't you like romance comics? If you like action movies, wouldn't you also like action comics? <BR/><BR/>I can't figure out why we'd be fans of a medium rather than following types of stories we like.<BR/><BR/>Did that make any sense? It's a very embryonic thought at this point.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13984799425896501960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-64144948820801622172007-05-11T04:26:00.000-07:002007-05-11T04:26:00.000-07:00Nothing against your whole argument, since I'm not...Nothing against your whole argument, since I'm not sure what to make of the issue myself, but I must take issue with this:<BR/><BR/>"But, that said, how awesome would it be if Peter Parker did visit Palestine to create a piece of autobio journalism told in graphic novel form, and Joe Sacco flirted with MJ and Gwen at the Coffee Bean and fought the Green Goblin?"<BR/><BR/>You <I>know</I> that Palestine doesn't actually exist as a country yet, right? Tread carefully.Moryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00811255096467614445noreply@blogger.com