week 2 response.

Are comic book’s for Children or Adults?

Personally, I believe that they are for both. When you are a child you see it differently, you appreciate comic’s for their fast paced action fueled storylines, the colorful picture’s and the character’s that seem like everything you want to be. When you’re an adult, you appreciate them differently; your perspective has changed, purely because your world knowledge has changed. You can appreciate the overt political commentary, the parodies and the humor. You can also recognize the racist remarks, and subtext that some comic’s are riddled with.  In the comic Tintin and the Blue Lotus,  you don’t have to look further than the image’s to recognize the unjust portrayal of the Chinese, there features exaggerated to seem somewhat un-natural compared to the generic Tintin, whose face barely holds distinctive features.   When you are a child, you simply see a story line, with two distinguishable groups of culture’s or peoples. Neither one of them good or bad because of the way they look, but because of the way the act, and what they do within the comic’s. Farr (1991) stated that the tintin comics were for people from the age of 7 to 77 which is evidence that no matter what age, comic books are for anybody and everybody.

Studying Tintin and the Blue Lotus, you are made aware of the racism, and cultural prejudice that is woven throughout the storyline, but would you have noticed this when you were are child?.

Or would you have picked up on the great aspects of the Tintin comics, like the fact that tintin never gave up on anything, that he achieved everything that he set out to achieve. Tintin as a character, is morally a great idol, and that's what I believe makes him appealing to children, and that as we grow older that aspect becomes less important.
Irr There are both negatives and positives within almost any comic. No matter what age you are, you are going to view it differently everytime you read one, and that's possibly the brilliance of comics their ablities to  continue to influence us, and in new ways no matter what age we are.

week2

Do you think comics are a children`s or adult genre/media?

I think comics are children`s genre. So comic directors consider what is an interesting thing to children like character, action and even conversation when directors  design a comic.  Even though comics are made of what is interesting to children, we can not ignore the fact adults also like and enjoy comics. Sometime you would see adults having a big smile on their faces next to son and daughter.  I can remember the time I woke up every early sunday to watch Walt disney comic when I was young. Sadly, now I still like Walt disney Walt disney series, especially 101 Dalmatian, but, it is not the reason I wake up early in the morning anymore. I think it means comics are not a adult genre. My personal opinion is comics just have interesting things that every people are interested in, but it does not mean comics are intended for adults.


I just think the reason adults read comics and have an interest is that they still have a childlike and eager to return to the innocence of childhood. It sounds like  get away from a daily routine and take a break time for a while. When adults connect with comics, they would remind their childhood. 

Blog Discussion Threads for Week 2

Do you think comics are a children's or adult genre/media? 

I think comics can be a genre for both adult and children. Generally speaking, most people might think that comic is a genre for children because it seems like the images of comics are designed for a taste of children but, indeed, adults can also have fun by reading the comics. Personally I used to read comics a lot more when I was a kid than I do now but still my friends and I still read them for fun and sometimes it feels good when reading comics reminds me of the old times. Meanwhile, not every comic has both children and adults as targeted audiences. It may depend on what materials comics contain. Deeply looking into that, I think it's up to author's intention whether to make one particular comic for adults only, children only or for both. In my opinion, when authors make up a stroy of comics, they need to consider what sort of themes and materials they are going to use for targeted readers because children, young people and adults all have different perspectives thus see things differently.

For example, in the story of 'The Adventurous of Tintin: The Blue Lotus', the writer's used opium as a material which is not suitable for children at all. Thus I think the comic is more likely to be a genre for adults. Adults have more knowledges and they are aware of what and how bad the opium, smoke and guns are. There might be different thoughts and views on it.

Week 2

hello guys i would like to answer question 1.

Week 2, Do you think comics are a children’s or adult genre/media?

In my case or opinion I would say it should be both children and adults, reasons is that because the comics varies in the genres that readers appeal to. To some say that it really appeals to children in some way, reasons is that for example Tintin comics in a majority in the old generation children read the comics due to its mix genres its character traits, themes, plots and it really puts the children into their seats just continue reading and thus it puts their imaginations into use and reflect on them or apply into their playful life.

As to the adults in my opinion they would still read comics either to reflect during their childhood days when they were reading the comics. But to some adults to them it would be just childish and embarrassing to read comics. But again it varies on the person’s personal interests and lifestyle. For example in Japan comics or called manga from what I have observed while I was in Japan adults as to say even elderly people still read comics. Why is that? Could it be that even at the later age comics would still appeal to them, and also could it be it’s a good time waster for them?  Or to them they would still feel they’re still children at heart?

And lastly overall in my opinion comics wouldn’t just appeal to children and also to adults because the comics over the years still developing into fine stories that appeals to the both adult and children.

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