There was a writing prompt after watching “the secret of drawing 2,” and this was my response to it:
- There was a movement in libraries to microfilm giant books that were filled with newspaper comics, this was quite frowned upon later as they destroyed many of the original work and kept only the microfilmed works. This means that the most priceless pieces were lost to this movement.
- The process itself of microfilming these books, meant that if there was any color it was transfer to a b&w format which meant it lost some of its detailing
- These microfilms were also difficult to keep from deteriorating as film is delicate and degrades rather quickly comparatively to paper.
- I think personally that I like the works like Lynn Anderson the best, the ones that continue on following a real timeline rather than staying forever young and immortal. There are some comics I think that’s okay for, but for a comic meant to depict a family that move on in time while the reader does, hardships will come.
- I think one of the most common things that people see now a days from the old cartoons that were made are politic cartoon because they would cause a stir within so many people that it was more so remembered to have a shocking image than to how an image that conveys soft and fuzzy feelings.
- Nowadays to preserve comics, and paper works like comics are kept in a temperature controlled, moisture controlled, and even light controlled room. As for handling these works, great care is taken to keep oils and harsh treatment away from the pages using gloves and surveillance of the viewer.
- There was a time when comics became extremely limited content wise, which was due to the comics code authority (CC). The CC was trying to keep things that might corrupt or warp the minds of younger people who got their hands on the material, as such comics for a time were seen as a source of evil and wrongdoing due to some of the subjects contained within the comics stories.
From the “Secret of Drawing Episode 2: storylines,” there are many different artists discussed and looked at. I think that David Clowes is very interesting because while it may be uncomfortable to realize the truths of these stories, I feel that it helps show the world. From listening to him talk and the narrator talking about Clowes’ childhood I would say that drawing and writing these stories were a cathartic thing for Clowes. I also think that these comics can help others who read them accomplish catharsis and really to help them relieve emotions or work out their feelings on difficult subjects. David Wertheim’s analysis and look into manga is interesting to me as my brother and I have about 500 or 600 volumes of manga. Manga helps connect people through the stories and characters that it introduces and can create the same style of catharsis as how I mentioned a comic could. Under the same light this is why Misako Rocks also caught my eye. Personally, I think that manga is fun to read and even just look at, there are so many different stories and niches in the industry many manga creators even will design a character similar to a character to a series they like to show their affection of that character. Seeing what manga used to be and the kind of manga that people such as myself see today is a very interesting development, from books with random sketches that were then bond together, to little booklets of double page spreads and then finally to what is known as manga today. I think that manga today kept the trait of the randomness from what original manga created while making a storyline and characters that the reader is attached to more so like American cartoons. I have always thought that the storyboards for movies and animations are interesting, because everything must be worked out before moving on to actually creating the work. The fact that most people will never see the storyboards even though they act almost as the underdrawings of movies and animations is insane, considering the time put into the storyboards. These storyboards show to everyone what is going to happen, because if a director or anyone called out a type of movement or position of how to end up, everyone will have a different interpretation of how that plays out. A storyboard helps to remove the uncertainty of exactly what that director or person is trying to achieve.
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