O.K. So I missed a few weeks
here… Making this one the last post for this course but hopefully not my last
post in the process of reviewing the ways . tell stories
However
I was suffering from a small addiction of my own that I didn’t know I had… And no I didn’t get hooked on “Gaming”, which
is, as you can tell by my post of the novel “You”, something that I still loathe. Wouldn’t that be ironic though.
I guess you could say I really dug into the Graphic novel
concept… I actually had some family
issues to take care of but the trip last week did allow me time to read through
the following: Reinhard Kleist’ Johnny Cash, I See A Darkness that depicts Cash’s eventful
life. Another one I delved into was
Marvel Illustrated version of Homer’s Illiad
retold by Roy Thomas. Now I have just started on Barefoot Gen by Keiiji Nakazawa, more of
a manga style story of the aftermath of Hiroshima. I have read the Pulitzer Prize winning book Hiroshima by John Hershy about 20 years
ago. After finishing the Barefoot Gen series (Can you believe the
library only has three of the ten?) I’ll
probably have to go back and re-read
Hiroshima as a bit of a comparison as distorted as it may be.
Obviously
the whole visual side of the Graphic Novel is appealing to my left-brain self
that I’m trying to restore here at Ringling.
Dr. Steiling thanks to your approach in course like this my idea of
literature and media have changed. I’m
now a lot more comfortable in this new approach than the stuffy academia of
old. Thanx Doc…
Much Respect,
Maurice
