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week 3 comic strips

I read a Calvin and Hobbes strip for today's class, which can be found below http://www.calvinandhobbes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/strip.jpg I always loved this comic strip going up, it has remained simple and charming throughout the years. I prefer the simple linear drawing style with only black lines instead of the colored strips. I feel that the life the artists like Bill Watterson put into the characters bounces off more. In just four panels,, the artists can easily tell a short story. Using different panels for each key scene, they are easily able to convey a sense of time or progression in the short story. These comics don't need elaborate backgrounds or any fancy details. In the second panel, it could just be a drawing of Calvin. Lovingly simple and innocent.

Week 2

Max Ernst , a week of kindness direction Panel 1: A magician with a chicken on the street. Could also be a dancer begging for money. Panel 2: a feathered man, possible an angel looms over a woman’s dead body. He is accompanied by the chicken. The dead body is most likely the figure from panel 1. Panel 3: It seems as though the woman is about to be buried in her tomb, and her spirit  has left her body nude. He is faced with two animal creatures. On the left, possibly a angelic like chicken, and to her right, something demonic. Panel 4: the woman is disrobed and laying in anguish on a stone slab. The demonic chicken is folding up her clothes while the angelic chicken is trying to persuade him with something. I don’t know how the smoking magic hat in the background relates to the scenario. Panel 5: Chicken satan is rejoicing over another fallen woman, who has given into his wiles. Panel 6: men are overcome by the power of chicken satan. Panel 7: evil roosters are taki