{"id":63824,"date":"2022-03-12T00:20:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T00:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/?p=63824"},"modified":"2022-03-12T00:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T00:20:02","slug":"how-comics-shape-your-opinion-of-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/blog\/how-comics-shape-your-opinion-of-society\/","title":{"rendered":"How Comics Shape Your Opinion Of Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8NW7lDZX764?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe>How comics shape your opinion of society. The power graphic novels in your life.<\/p>\n<p>The world of graphic novels is a fascinating one. It&#8217;s not just for teenagers! Comics are now becoming mainstream, and some comic book authors (usually known as &#8220;graphic novelists&#8221;) are making millions! This blog explores the social impact and cultural relevance of comics and graphic novels.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The world of graphic novels is a fascinating one. It&#8217;s not just for teenagers! Comics are now becoming mainstream, and some comic book authors (usually known as &#8220;graphic novelists&#8221;) are making millions! This blog explores the social impact and cultural relevance of comics and graphic novels.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: Graphic novels &#038; comics can be enjoyed by everyone, regardless of age or gender. If you&#8217;re new to the genre, there&#8217;s no better place to start than this blog! Even if you&#8217;ve read hundreds of comics before, you&#8217;ll still find tons of great information here.<\/p>\n<p>A recent thought provoking article by Nylon Calculus&#8217; Micah Van Hove on the nature of comics in society is also an interesting take on language and perception. Van Hove wrote &#8220;Comic books shape our opinions of society,&#8221; in which he discusses how comics have an effect on what we believe to be true and how this can be seen in the attitudes towards gender, race, and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Using the X-men as his main example, he states that the great steps forward in Marvel Comics have been when creators have created a whole new world from scratch. He writes that these new worlds are worlds where women and minorities are not marginalized but are in fact leading figures in the storyline. He concludes; &#8220;I think it&#8217;s no coincidence that when comics became something more than a disposable serial format, they also became more progressive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A simple comparison between X-men comics from 1968-1970 with The Uncanny X-Men from 2012 will show this idea put into action. The earlier comics depict a world where women and minorities are very much absent or oppressed by the white males who dominate the comic. The later comics depict a world where women and minorities are leaders of society, who all possess superpowers themselves. It is through this kind of comparison that one can see the<\/p>\n<p>It is a fact that many people do not read graphic novels, and probably a lot of people only know the very popular ones such as Harry Potter. They do not know the greater amount of graphic novels that are out there that are just as good if not better than Harry Potter (keyword: Vertigo). Many adults see comics as something for little kids, but this is untrue. You don&#8217;t have to be a kid to read comics and enjoy them. If you want to try reading graphic novels I would highly recommend picking up the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman or the Watchmen series by Alan Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Tone:informative and informative<\/p>\n<p>Comic books have been an American institution since the Golden Age of the 1930s. The first superheroes were created back then, and by the time the Second World War started, there were tens of thousands of Americans reading comics every month.<\/p>\n<p>Twentieth-century comic books are interesting because they represented a great shift in the way we expressed ourselves. It was a shift that helped us understand what people value in their lives and what they think is important.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no fluke that America&#8217;s most famous superhero is called Superman; he was created in 1938, at a time when Americans were starting to feel like they could accomplish anything. Superman was an immigrant who came to America with nothing but his powers and his sense of good will, and he used those powers to help everyone else attain their dreams as well. That&#8217;s a nice story, but it&#8217;s not real. What is real is that comic books got people reading more than ever before, and that in turn resulted in people feeling like they could do anything.<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds of examples of this happening in history: art shapes our worldview, and our worldview determines how we live. The Renaissance gave birth to the idea of humanism, which put humanity at the center of everything; enlightenment thinkers made reason our god;<\/p>\n<p>The power of graphic novels is in their visual appeal. They can relate any story and make it look like a movie; in many cases the artist succeeds in making the story more clear than a movie. A good graphic novelist makes the story come out with more life than what you could have imagined on your own. The colors are usually more vibrant and eye-catching than any kind of novel that you could read.<\/p>\n<p>While some graphic novels are made into movies, there is a major difference between the two mediums. In a movie, there is only one point of view: you, as the viewer get to see all of the action from only one angle, which may or may not be an accurate depiction of what happened. In a graphic novel, however, you get to see each scene from many different viewpoints and angles. You are also able to see how every character feels about each situation at that point in time and what they are thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this ability to display characters&#8217; thoughts it is important for graphic novelists who want to tell a good story to go into detail about how each character feels at every stage of the story so that readers can picture each individual vividly. One way that graphic novelists do this is by using animal characteristics for characters; for example,<\/p>\n<p>Comics have been around since the early 1930s. There are many different comic book series, and many different comic book characters and stories. Most people have heard of Superman, Batman, Spiderman and Wonder Woman. These are but a few of the most popular characters in comics.<\/p>\n<p>Comic books can be found in corner stores or at your local library. Some comic books are also sold online or through mail orders. Lots of people who read comic books never go to comic book conventions and have never met another person who reads them. Comic book fans have their own culture that is distinct from that of mainstream society.<\/p>\n<p>When you read a comic book, you become part of a community that shares in the experiences of the characters in the story. For example, when you read about Superman&#8217;s adventures, you can imagine yourself doing all kinds of exciting things that Superman does. You might get ideas for how to solve your own problems by imagining yourself as a superhero taking charge of your life and solving issues in creative ways that you could not do before by yourself. For instance, if you were trapped under water by an enemy in a story, you could use your imagination to visualize being rescued by Superman or another superhero instead of feeling hopeless about your situation. This is just one example of how<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people are familiar with the idea of comics being used as a medium for storytelling. A lot of people are familiar with the idea of comics being used as a medium for comedy. A lot of people are familiar with the idea of comics being used as a medium for telling a story that is deeply personal to the creator. What I&#8217;ve noticed, though, is that in many cases comics have been used to tell stories that are deeply personal to the creator in ways that have absolutely nothing to do with humor or storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>Tadamasa Goto&#8217;s &#8220;Sunny&#8221;, for example, is an autobiographical work about his childhood and adolescence. It&#8217;s not funny; it&#8217;s not really meant to be a story, but more just a jumble of scenes from his childhood strung together in roughly chronological order; it&#8217;s certainly not intended to be deeply personal in any way other than its mere existence.<\/p>\n<p>So then what&#8217;s the point? I don&#8217;t know what Sunny is supposed to be &#8220;about&#8221; or how it fits within Goto&#8217;s body of work (which I haven&#8217;t read). But my guess is that what led him to make this particular book was not some sort of narrative necessity or even an attempt at self-expression. My guess is that he<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nb_EFvC2IPA?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iwyyxEJCIuU?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How comics shape your opinion of society. 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