Icon Comics Essays

Two of the most incredible television shows in the DC Comics universe are Arrow and The Flash. Both are heart-warming, gut-retching action shows that feature superheroes, love-lives and awesome costumes. Despite those similarities both characters and their shows are very different. The Flash is a meta-human with super speed named Barry Allen and The Arrow is just a regular person who never misses a shot with a bow named Oliver Queen. Both The Flash and The Arrow have super smart teams and secondary

The “Berlin Goddess” Kore The Berlin Kore is a piece of Archean art that stands out among the rest. The statue, also referred to as the “Berlin Goddess”, stands more than 6 feet tall (76’’in.) and is made out of white marble with blue-grey streaks. Traces of red paint can be seen on the statue's robe; the robe was once painted red. These colors are almost completely faded from the marble statue. The statue type is known as a "kore", which can mean daughter, maiden, young woman, or even a goddess

Il Deserto Rosso: Film Analysis Il Deserto Rosso – Red Desert is an Italian film from 1964 directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. The plot of the film focuses on the events that revolve around Giuliana (Monica Vitti), a woman who is living a deep inner crisis. After, an attempted suicide, which is disguised as a car accident, Giuliana’s mental state is compromised. The woman is affected by continuous neurosis, which preclude her the possibility of leading a normal life. Giuliana is married to Ugo (Carlo

In Exploring Art, Margaret Lazzari and Dona Schlesier define iconography as “a system of symbols,” which are “image[s] or element[s] that stands for or represents some other entity or concept” (Lazzari and Schlesier 90). Many Indian art are heavily infused with iconography, as one can easily conclude in studying this course's monuments list. An excellent example would be the Seated Buddha of late fifth century to early sixth century. This sandstone sculpture is located at Sarnath, India and depicts

John Patrick Shanley's work, Doubt: A Parable, is a thought-provoking play that makes the reader question his or her thoughts. The story takes place in 1964, at St. Nicholas, a Catholic school and church, where accusations against Father Flynn start to arise. Main characters, Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn get into a dispute over Donald Mueller, the first and only black student in the school. The interactions between Aloysius and Flynn creates the question every reader is dying to figure out: is

One of her images in particular is the hand holding up a card that reads, " I Shop therefore I am." This message was meant to target large corporations and blind consumer sending, but in the 1990s this image became an icon. It was printed on shopping and tote bags which is very ironic considering the image was meant to oppose such things. However, these bags can be found in museum gift shops and some have become very valuable. The upscale Vincon Department Store in Barcelona

In this essay, I’m going to discuss the gender roles in the paintings of Dalí, in the film “Un Chien Andalou” by Buñuel and the poems of Federico García Lorca. Gender roles play a huge part within these works. All three of these artists had the ability to showcase something beautiful or majestic through disturbing and off putting imagery. This is what made their work so distinctive compared to many other artists during the surrealist period. The main things all of these artists have in common are

Not only was the inherent power of images recognized in this period, it was also mobilized in particular ways, specifically in the discourse of theology. The iconoclastic debate centered on the appropriate use of icons in religious veneration, and the precise relationship between the sacred personage and his/her image (Brook 2001). Given the newfound significance of images, it was feared that the viewer would misdirect their worship toward the image, rather than toward the holy person represented

Google Acquires Famebit for Influencer Marketing On Tuesday, October 11, 2016, Google announced the acquisition of Famebit, an influencer marketing platform that helps creators connect with brand advertisers, especially on YouTube. To date, more than 25,000 branded videos have been produced via Famebit from its start in 2013. Since then, complementary and innovative influencer marketing platforms, such as Octoly, have emerged, many of which are helping drive significant creator content while simultaneously

In the essay What Makes Superman So Darned American by Gary Engle, Engle suggests the possibility that Superman is the epitome of being an American, even more so than actual Americans such as John Wayne, or fictional ones such as Paul Bunyan. Engle states that out of everyone in American history Superman is the only one that “achieves truly mythic stature, interweaving a pattern of beliefs, literary conventions, and cultural traditions of the American people more powerfully and more accessibly

Forms and Content, Take 3: “Time Frames” by Scott McCloud • “…panels or ‘frames’ have no fixed or absolute meaning, like the icons of language, science, and communication” (99). This quote is significant because it shows that these panels are not what define comics, but rather make room for the content of the panel to fully express the message the author is attempting to convey. As McCloud says, the purpose of a panel differs from that of language because each word has its own meaning or set of

illustrated in comic-strip style that is presented as a book. Graphic novels are the result of a dramatic change in the landscape of the American comic book, with the creation of the direct market, a system where publishers sold comic books directly to specialty comics stores, and challenges created by The Comic Code Authority, comics were forced to adapt. Graphic novels became a way to avoid The Comic Code Authority, allowing them freedom of context. Although graphic novels and comic books are similar

In a society that is heavily influenced by mass media, women are repeatedly compartmentalized into unrealistic, and often degrading standards of appearance and sexuality. Doris Bazzini’s research on magazines and Caroline Heldman’s blog explores themes related to a woman’s appearance, while Jessica Valenti elaborates on the concept of virginity in her essay titled, “The Purity Myth”. Despite the diversity in scope when it comes to womanhood, there is a numerous set of expectations that a female must

Academic interest in graphic novels and comics has skyrocketed in the last few years. Increasingly, educational research is produced regarding the incorporation of comics and graphic novels in elementary and secondary classrooms to support a variety of literacies, including visual, textual, and technological. Dozens of lesson plans geared toward students in ESL (English as a Second Language), Advanced Placement, and Special Education programs utilize these works. Scholars in a range of disciplines—such

Reading Assignment #1 Reading Response of The Understanding Comics The definition of comics as an art form created by McCloud, in Understanding Comics is really interesting. McCloud showed a triangle graph of the “Reality”, “The Picture Plane”, and “Meaning”. The art form of “Reality” and “The Picture Plane” is clear and easy to understand, however, the “Meaning” which only uses shapes to show the object is not easy to get. This idea of comics is an art form, which is totally new to me. The author --

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is based on the fantasy video gaming life of an immature young man forced to grow up into the adult world. The movie is presented with video game and cartoon elements which are used to contrast the real world with his immature fantasy life. The third-person narration and the use of non-diegetic inserts of cartoon and video game elements, allow the audience to more fully understand the theme of leaving the child like world for the real adult world. The narration also

Should Young Adult Novels Be So Graphic Should young adult novels be so graphic? No, they should not. The reason why they shouldn’t because it’s for young adults not for adults. If it was for adults then that's understandable but its no adult books are a whole different story. Young Adults with be read them and they might not like how graphic they are and their parents will get angry because their kids are reading them and they don't want their kids reading and learning the stuff

of the first webcomics – comics which were created specifically for display and distribution via the internet. These early webcomics primarily conformed to the limitations of print-based comics, with their only real differences being the way they were displayed and distributed. It wasn’t long, however, until the benefits of this new outlet became apparent, with some artists embracing the practice of learning as they went along (leading to a mass of relatively amateur comics which were allowed to mature

Comics are for Learners The graphic essay ,”Show and Tell” by Scott McCloud was written to prove that Graphic novels can be a useful tool to communication and that we see this form of communication through many mediums. To convey this message, McCloud uses classification and division to categorize all of his knowledge into concise and easy- to- understand categories for the reader.This theme of the usefulness of graphic novels is also seen in other works of McCloud, including his TED talk, describing

Graphic novels seem to be much more captivating to read because they have more pictures and less words. The pictures have powerful messages while the text tells the story. The authors of graphic novels are often very talented and can develop a story, with the illustrator, using mostly graphics. We can use the pictures to let us infer what’s happening later in the story and tell us what’s happening now. Even though reading usually consists of pages filled with words, March by Aydin and Powell uses