Persepolis

Again like Palestine, a history i have never followed or known much about, so again i found it interesting.

When i first started reading it, i had to start over and read the beginning again, because i was so confused about the whole profit aspect and Marji talking to god and believing she was a profit, i thought she was crazy... only once i read it again and further i realized it was just childhood ignorance and high self opinion.

Also again like Palestine this is another novel that depicts an area of the world that in America we are feed negative opinons about constantly and lacking the idea of they are people just like you and me... but that is how war works i suppose. I love how she shows Marji (herself as a child) being a kid having opinions making jokes going to parties and being into "punk" style so many things that are just like here in the states that so many people ignorantly assume is only here and could never happen in a place like that.

Her art work was very easy to see and understand, i have heard people say that" aw well the story it good but the drawing is mediocre", well they are welcome to their opinons but i like the drawing style in this novel you can easily follow it and i feel in a sense it makes you realize in the beginning anyways that you are following a young persons thoughts and feelings through this experience.

I enjoyed this novel and i plan to watch the movie soon enough. I have lent the novel to a friend as well who was raving about the movie but did not realize it was a book first.

Saccos Palestine

First off i would like to say that i have never really followed all the news, history, debate over Israel and Palestine, so to me this was very interesting. Also i feel as we have discussed in class that in America or other places too even im sure we have this negative image of people from middle east constituently shoved down our throats an so many grow up with this typical image of an evil man with machine guns and a women in a veil with no important opinions. I feel this comic shows that yes those people do exist but more often then not most the people are just people like everybody just living through different struggles then we do and struggles that honestly most of us probably couldn't bare.

To go over the "comic" aspect of the novel i found it easy enough to follow the panels through the story, and most the time it was easy enough to see the imagery with the exception of a few panels where it got very busy, but the busy was for a purpose, like to show the darkness in the story when the man was in a room when arrested in palestine and he was hallucinating his child dead due to lack of food water or sleep. Also after you pointed out that he signs somewhere on most every page i couldn't help by go and look and try to find them in all the pages, some were very obviously placed at the bottom corners but some were hiding in their.

I liked that Sacco told stories that he heard from others while their and drew them out. Even though he was not their and can not specifically know how everything appeared i think it added a lot to the story to hear these stories from the families and people he met during his time in Palestine.

Also as discussed inc lass as well, the conclusion very inconclusive as said in class. weather that was for a purpose i do not know if it is to show that the story really is not over, his time in Palestine may be over, but everything- he has seen and heard will continue to happen

"Roy the Roach Rides Again"

First off this was great because of the work put into the cover and shape to make it look like a roach, even though it is a little bit grose.
Stylistically the art is great its easy to follow and read. I enjoy this style of comics because it can be followed and the design is friendly and fun. You can tell Claire put a lot of work into this comic on the cutting of all the pages and cover and all the drawings that had to of taken a long time. All the line work on the final spread is well done but not too over powering to where you cant read or see the imagery.
She utilizes a lot of facial expressions to showcase the emotions of the characters and to understand where the story is going and how the people are feeling about the situation. on the second page i like the utilization of the roach to split the panels, also the roach has a different shape speech bubble so you know that it is more of a thought then the roach actually speaking, her interpretation of what the roach would have been thinking.

All and all you can tell that Claire has put a lot of hard work into this comic not only with drawing the book, but the construction of the boo.