Peanuts: Re-write

So I’ve decided to re-do my post on the Peanuts comics. I feel like there’s just so much more to say about them. To be honest though, I’m more familiar with the Peanuts movies than the comic strips. Every Christmas, when I was a kid, the family would snuggle up on the couch and watch the Charlie Brown Christmas special. The one where Charlie Brown had to get a Christmas tree and he comes back with this dinky little thing. All the neighborhood kids make fun of him but they decorate the tree anyways and everything turns out just fine. Oh, those were the days. Anyways, I digress. In my last post about Peanuts I talked a lot about the similarities it has to Calvin and Hobbes. I really enjoy comics like Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes because the strips are so short and concise. They’re like a one line joke. Quick and simple, but effectively hilarious. I also really enjoy anything that has to do with witty children. The characters are more like child representations of adults. It kind of has to do with what David Steiling was saying in class the other day about how real representations of children are never shown. But for this comic, I think it’s effective. Sometimes there are jokes in the strips that only older generations would understand, but at the same time, the strips are fun and timeless for young children. I truly hope that Peanuts will be one of those comics that will run for years to come. With the digital age quickly rising above us, it seems that a lot of our printed treasures are being ignored. It’s so much easier to go online these days for this sort of content. There is just something magical about seeing a Peanuts strip in the newspaper. It reminds me of my childhood. Peanuts, even the newer ones, just have such a vintage and classic feel to them. The characters and their crazy antics need to be preserved for years to come. I feel like I see Charlie Brown and Snoopy everywhere nowadays on shirts, hoodies, lunchboxes, you name it. But not enough kids actually have read one of their strips.

Diary of a Dominatrix

So even though our week of reading women’s comics is over I wanted to give another female written comic a try. So I decided to read Diary of a Dominatrix. Wow. I’m not too sure if this type of comic is what I’m really into, but it was definitely interesting to check out. First of all, I thought the way the figures and objects were drawn was exquisite. What I mean to say is that the style of art was very intricate and showed a huge sense of craftsmen-ship. I loved how the artist drew the main character with such thick, bold lines. It seemed to match the character’s personality very well. As for the story, I’m not too sure if it was something I could really get into. I think maybe if the comic was told in more of a traditional story format I could like it better. Instead, the story seemed like little pieces that never really fit together. I guess this makes since because it’s the diary of the dominatrix. So it’s probably supposed to feel like small, little episodes. As for the content of this comic all I can say is that it was quite interesting, for lack of a better word. Showing some of the ways she tortured men was quite alarming. The artist drew everything with great detail and without censoring any of her wild imagination. I kept wondering if some of the stuff the dominatrix did is really done in that world. I mean, obviously men request the schoolgirl stuff, but the whole binding thingy? Doesn’t seem enjoyable, but “hey” that’s just my opinion. I really loved how the dominatrix was portrayed as a real women. The page with the before and after she’s done up as a dominatrix was great. Showing her as just a normal, slightly scary looking girl, to a sexpot dominatrix was amazing. I also really enjoyed where her beauty tools surrounded the frame with her little descriptions. The same was done with her torturing devices. Lastly, I enjoyed how her body shape was drawn. She wasn’t some super tall, unrealistically skinny girl, but a curvy, slightly short chick that has problems getting into her leather suit. That was funny.