Mickey Mouse Dailies 1942 Vol. 13

-
Mickey Mouse Dailies 1942 Vol. 13

I read through some of Mickey Mouse Dailies which were in black and white. I loved how in every frame there was not a moment when it was boring or the characters looked static. There was action, and you could tell that something intense was happening – especially with Pete. In a way it felt like Mickey and Mini were detectives, or Indiana Jones or something. They always seemed to be the ones who people went to about their troubles. I also found it interesting that since it was a thing at that time, there was a lot more smoking involved – and some sexual innuendos or like sexualized imagery that I wouldn't expect from a Disney comic. Like there was a woman who was super curvy and her cleavage was shown. Also, when she was looking for something, Goofy was looking at her behind. Another thing is when they were going after this bad guy with a wrapped head, Goofy had a gun to him – which is very inappropriate considering the context of who the characters are. I just saw a different side of Goofy, him being in the same personality as maybe Donald Duck – more aggressive and has a temper. Donald duck was not in the equation it seems at the time, it seems like when they later on added Donald to their gang then they were like 'hmm, why don't we make Goofy just goofy and make Donald have the temper and Mickey can just be happy go lucky and the main star of the show'.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Arrival - Shaun Tan

-
The Arrival Shaun Tan The Arrival  by Shaun Tan is a very interesting story, told in a comic. The reason why this works so well, is because although Tan does not use any descriptions or any of the characters speaking to one another. This comic worked particularity well because it was very cinematic as well as animatic. Going scene by scene, and sometimes as detailed as frame by frame. In a sense, it can be seen as a silent film – they usually did not have to have dialogue between the characters, it was all inaudible. The majority of how this story worked out was as the saying goes, ‘actions speak louder than words’. So, whenever you’d go to the next frame it would be in a very sequential way of looking at how the story is being played out. Tan even shows the characters in a very close up scale, showing the emotions on their faces and how they react with each other as well as the environment around them. Even the way that Tan would illustrate the...
Read more

Week nine: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

-
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Persepolis is about a girl's childhood and adulthood of growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution which came out in France. I didn't read the novel first, it's interesting, I actually watched the animation of it about three years ago. It's interesting because the graphic novel is non-fiction and brings out the life of how the author's childhood was – especially being in black and white, I thought that it gave the book the essence of the time of when she was a kid, as well as the environment and the event that was taking place during that time. I linked with this because although I did not personally go through it, I had family members and people I knew who went through the same things the author went through at this time. Such as, repression, warfare and loss. Because I grew up in the Middle East, but in a country that did not go through such tough circumstances such as Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and Oman. There ha...
Read more

Week Six: Underground Comics - Gay Comics

-
Underground Comics - Gay Comics I actually didn't know that underground comics were a thing – man I mean it took time and effort to make comics. So I couldn't imagine just making comics for the hell of it. I didn't know that in the 1980s they would especially make comics about explicit stuff. I knew that they would probably have sexual innuendos or sexual symbolism but not tho this extent. They would show teens and what they probably went through in school and had crushes on people. It was like some of the shows today except that even today they aren't as explicit as they are in these comics that were made over 30 years ago.  It was also in black and white which I thought it would probably be in color – considering that their flag is the rainbow one. However, it was probably too expensive to print the comics in color. But it was also cool because the styles were different inside and they didn't just tackle the stories and topics about gays but they showed l...
Read more