Maus by Art Spiegelman

I found mouse to be a wonderful read both comic and first glance I thought it was going to take me forever to ready with both books being over 150 pages long. But the more I read the more I lost track of times this book truly sucks you in to not only to the story of Spiegelmans fathers events of being a Jew in Germany though world war II and being sent to Auschwitz but into Spiegelmans life in general. from his mother suicide to the way his father who hordes found thing and will not pay for anything and how Spiegel man and his wife and mother in law have to deal with him and there own personal trouble. It gives the stories a real personal and raw emotion that you don’t get from stories about the holocaust a full look at everything from the past to the present.

            What really gave this narrative a very great edge was he didn’t use people besides for when he shows a comic about dealing with his mother’s suicide, which added a nice touch to the book and helped connect things and show his true feeling of this mothers death. But I love the choice of using cats as the Nazis, mice as the Jews and pigs as everyone else which helped I think me engage with the story though it was about his father I could put myself in his shoes and I liked his choice of rats for this time period because rats are thought to be dirty things that need to be killed. and that’s how Nazis thought of the Jewish people and in turn Nazis being cats who are know to kill mice and even play with them as they are dyeing before they eat them. And everyone else as pigs, which are just, know as eating anything and not caring. I really enjoyed when they where sneaking out to get food or to find knew shelter to hid to not be sent to a death camp speigelman used pig mask on Anaje and his fathers characters which I thought was great and added and really let you know they where in hiding. I really enjoyed this book and though I thought it was going to be a long read I read it pretty fast because I was so invested in these narratives they where like reading a movie yet you could truly put yourself in them better then any book or movie you could ever see because the visuals really help put this story to a whole nether leave that I don’t think any other medium would do this story justice.

underground comics

i read i few different underground comics from are classes rescues stuff from Robert Crumb's Whiteman, fat freddy cat and some tits and clits. for me this was my first time reading any sort of underground comic before this class i was uses to some main stream comic super heros and news paper comic strips whens news papers where still truly around. The biggest thing that stood out was how most deal with sex in atlas in one issue if not throughout the whole serious not so much for fat freddy cat but alot of weed and human violence towards his cat which is different then the norm because knowing if it was a main stream comic peta would be after then because they have nothing better todo. but the best thing about reading these three was i got to see the broad range of what underground comics where all about robert crumbs whiteman was all about sexual fantasy with a bigfoot something that you would never see besides in a comic, also tits and clits which is all into female empowerment and breaking stereo types about sex and female roles in general. it showed me that underground comic like all comics they can be a really great medium to get your message or fantasy throughout and are really true to everyday life with issues that mainstream comics will not touch.

A Contract with God

Will Eisner A Contract with God was a really great and enjoyable read for me though it was dark with death in most of the short stories. The narrative does a great job with showing the characters inner and outer lives who live in the apartment complex. the one that really stands out to me was the one about the tenant who everyone thinks is just a rough mean man, but who really is just someone who is lonely and feels outcast and who has his money stolen by a young girl who looks innocent but is really the cold hearted one who kills his dog and in the end the man commit suicide and dies with people thinking he was a brut and the girl is looked at as the poor innocent one, which is true to life that sometimes we only judge people based on looks without knowing who they truly are and this rings through throughout the stories in this narrative.