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lmst340-Assignment Eleven "Comic Contemporary Lit"

For this weeks assignment, I read Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli, a great comic. The first thing that stuck out to me was the style of illustration that Mazzucchelli used in this, it has bright blues and muted purples and every character has their own style and shape, and I love all the the jumps from the narrator explaining one thing and then going back to another almost as if he gets distracted.
A thing that really interested me was the fact that this story was being told through the eyes of the protagonist's brother who was stillborn. Another thing that I loved where the full page panels that used a lot of elements on them, I can really relate to some of those panels, I can see the careful placement of the the layout, it made me think of posters in graphic design (that is my major). Another thing that really stuck out to me was the use of misdirection in the beginning of the comic, we see the protagonist watching what we assume is a dirty movie (Pornography) with text bubbles that read "mmm ohhh" as well as "that's good" and "you like that" as well as some other panels where he is portrayed as a womanizer . In reality, he was watching a recording of one of the first times if not the first time he cooked for his wife and she was enjoying her dish.

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