Comics

Journal entry in class I decided to share

When I look back on my childhood, I never really had one thing in particular that I enjoyed more than other things.  I just took things as they came, received gifts graciously, and really enjoyed giving to people more than getting.  The only things that have really stuck with me my whole life are my comic books.  I have always preferred comics over real books.  I never really enjoyed stories that just took their time and hurt your hands when you turned the page.  I have only enjoyed a few real books in the course of my life, and Harry Potter is definitely not one of them.  I always enjoyed looking at the art that was used in comics, due to the creativity and absolute stunning beauty that they held, and alongside that, they also told great stories.  They always had something new to offer each time you read them.  A small character design you might not have noticed before, a style of drawing that occurs more often than not that you realize is characteristic to the artist.  Comics while not considered by many to be forms of art or worthwhile to society, they still have a huge impact on our lives today.  How many of the great modern summer blockbusters have been based off of comic book heroes or characters?  How many different characters from video games have been inspired by the design of comic book characters?  How many different worlds have been inspired and dreamed up because a famous drawing by Steve Ditko stuck with us since we were a child?  One of my favorite cartoon strips once had a picture of an old superman in the middle of Times Square holding up comics telling the people that comic books are books, art, and graphic design, and complains that nobody is listening to him.  Comics are dying out, and we need to find a way to bring them back.  It was a part of so many people’s childhoods, and it could still be a part of the childhoods of future generations, unless people continue to turn a blind eye towards the type of book that invented Superman.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[New Theory]

Greetings fellow comics lover, I share your feeling of being a comics lover. It has been one of my biggest inspirations and will always be.

Can you please review my story "While you were asleep." I hope you like it.
Thanks

[The Slayer]

So my sisters don't really read comics and it bugs me that they see superhero movies and not know where they come from. I know that when I have kids I will buy them comics I remember them so much from being a kid. I would always read my cousins or my uncles comic books. I also get them out of the library a lot.