The Comic Book

After reading all about Will Eisner and what he had to do for comics literally blew me away. Will basically was on the front edge of making comics popular and starting the idea of a graphic novel. His whole aesthetic is about body language and how human emotion can solely tell a story without any words. He really was trying to push the capacity of the graphic story. He wanted everyone to view comics like he did. What I mean by that is most people saw comics as a reading material for children, and that nothing in a comic would be something an adult would be interested in. Being a big comic book reader I couldn’t agree with him more, there’s a whole new world of story telling that people are missing out on. When you read a novel you are given the opportunity to imagine what that world looks like, but with a comic you actually have to be more immersed in the reading than you would anything else. You have to visualize the world through the comic and have to be able to read body language, lighting, compositions, and color. All of the elements are highly considered and make the reader work harder to understand what’s happening with each individual frame. Being an artist this is our biggest accomplishment, when we get someone to look at out piece and understand what we are trying to say. I think Will has lots of good points with this idea, since he was the man to start the graphic novel.  

Even though children viewed most comics, there was a huge production of them during the Second World War. They had a lot of value to them, because of how easily they were to carry with you. I think most of the military was distributing them out to relief their soldiers as well as motivate them. Comics are a beautiful was to polish something and make it better than it is. Anyways, the way we view the comic book today is very similar to the way people did when it was first created. I think as soon as we pass the idea of the comic being a children’s form of reading will be the next revival in this medium.