The Comic Strip

I started out reading Krazy Kat, “Krazy & Ignatz,  A Brick Stuffed with Moom-Bims” because it was the first one I found in the library. Most of the time I didn’t really understand what was going on dialog wise, the language was hard to interpret to me. Was the mouse (who I assume was Ignats) in jail because he was the bad guy? Also it was really hard for me to see the police officer as a dog in the same was I could tell the other two were a cat and a mouse so that was slightly confusing.  I guess the brick throwing slapstick was kind of funny but overall I was confused.

Next I read the Little Nemo in Slumberland, Little Nemo and the palace of Ice. I have read some Little Nemo before and went to the exhibit at Selby when it was up so I was vaguely familiar with it. I do not like this Flip character, was my first thought as I started reading the book. I thought it was funny how it could switch from jack frost to pirates to an island jungle to another ship to a palace then to a city. Besides the obvious racism I thought overall it was good. I really liked at the end of each page, its Nemo in bed being woke up, I thought that was interesting. I also really liked the clothing design in the book, I thought it was really interesting.

I also read the first Calvin and Hobbs PDF on the resource page, which I am also slightly familiar with. I’ve always loved the creativity with Calvin and Hobbs, Hobbs actually being a stuffed tiger; I always thought that made it really interesting.  Calvin’s interactions with his parents are also very entertaining.

The last one I picked to read from the list was Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton, which I was surprised to see because I though this section was about early comics and im almost sure its rather recent? Regardless I have seen some of the panels before but ive never read the pages in full. They were really fun to read and honestly I enjoyed this work the best out of what I read, Calvin and Hobbs coming in second. It was overall very funny to read and the drawings while simple and sometimes crude were also incredibly funny.

Overall I think all these comic strips have good things about them and are good in their own way, the definitely tell a good narrative.