Saturday mornings, the Sunday paper, the book a little kid hides in his back pocket at recess and stuffs in between the pages of his history book while the teacher is teaching a lesson. A man dressed up in a suit with webs all over it or and man wearing a red cape flying through the sky. All of these have something in common. All of these things can be related to a little thing called a comic or comic book or even comic strip.
In class we watched a clip about comics and their origin as well as where they began. I was slightly interested in the subject, so I went browsing on the net to see what other comics where out there, aside from your normal Superman and Spiderman. I came across a strip called Mama’s Boyz. In these strips the author takes messages or situations that occur in everyday life and turn them into comics strips. For example, the first strip talks about a rapper and the message that he sends out to children. His message is to carry guns and take what you want by force. Then by the end of the strip the same message he sends to the children gets the rapper of strip robbed. The second strip that interested me by Jerry Craft is about teenage pregnancy and how these girls are not old enough to get into a movie because they are under the age of seventeen. In the strip, they are denied access to the movie and was told to bring a parent; so they could enter. The irony of the whole thing is that they are parents themselves.
I think that comics are not only a great way to express feeling on how things are, but also great because some of them like Spiderman or Superman, let you venture into a world outside of our own.
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