PhilpotNew U1.5

Anastasia Gvineria

TOK

I believe comics are considered art. They are graphic images that have a message behind them. I think this is enough to call something art. Even though some of them might require more skill and are more meaningful, all comics can be perceived as artworks in my opinion. 

 Chosen word: POINT OF VIEW

5.2

The way “point of view” is related to the comic is that it is shown from a young student’s perspective. We only see her side of the story and her view on the topic, not the people who made the decision to make these kids wear veils. We do not see an explanation as to why these people are making them do this or how it is beneficial, we only see that the students do not like it and there are many reasons they feel uncomfortable having to wear it.
The comic is made using only black and white and the different scenes are very similar to each other, where there are hardly any differences between some. I think the artist used this message to better portray the dull and sad feeling that she had during this time.

5.3

The same word can be used to relate to a Calvin and Hobbes comic. Even though the two comics are completely different and have very different meanings/messages, the word “point of view’ can be connected to either of them.

In the Calvin and Hobbes comic, we can see them discussing why war is played and not peace. Calvin says it is because of “too few role models”. They proceed to play a game where Calvin is the peacemaker and Hobbes is the villain. In the end, they come to the conclusion that the game is stupid and has no point. From their “point of view”, peace is better than war, but there are people who do not agree and think that war is the only way to get what they want.

INTERNATIONAL MINDEDNESS

The strip comic comments on international-mindedness in the sense that the characters believe that the world would be better if we made peace instead of war. They do not understand why people prefer to make war. This must mean that they are not against any category of people based on their religion, beliefs, etc. It comments on the nature of war by showing how pointless it is to go back and forth fighting over a topic. War does not solve an issue or show who was right/wrong, it just shows who used more violent ways to get what they want, and in the comic, this was described by the characters as “stupid”.

5.4

In the Persepolis comic, the terms from the book that are related to it would be negative space, speech bubble,  panel, gutter. There was a lot of negative space which in my opinion is related to the empty and negative feeling that the comic portrays. Speech bubbles were used but only to fit the message and text, there were not any fancy and fun since this was not the intention. The panel is what separated the scenes, it was simply a black line. There were many gutters in between the scenes since there was a big story being told through a small number of scenes. Many things were left up to our imagination and common sense.

5.5

The images in the comic Persepolis were very abstract. It had no detail or color, it was very simple. In my opinion, this is because the point of the comic was the message, not so much the images themselves. 

CONCEPT

An artist would want to turn their message into a cartoon because cartoons are interpreted better by people. They are simpler to understand by any age category and make your message/intention more clear. They are also much more eye-catching and interesting for people. For example, if there was simply a text with your message on it, it would be less likely for anyone to take their time reading it, as for a comic, it would probably be more exciting for them.

5.6

I personally do not read comics and do not have a favorite series of comic strips, but after looking them up I found this comic and chose this one as my favorite. I like it because it is simple and easy to understand, the scenes are not too busy and focus on the main message. It has a comedic message which mocks our generation and their frequent use of social media.