Comic Essay

A comic is: “A form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions”.

Starting with the boy’s comics, the titles usually centre on action and interests like sport, war and adventure. Heroes are heroic men who are strong, brave and aggressive. The settings that boy’s comics are stereotypically based on are jungles, deserts, outer space and exotic locations. There are roles to identify with which include soldiers, spacemen, scientists and sports stars. Most boys’ comics are about bravery, adventure and challenge and the events are exciting and heroes take risks finding themselves in amazing predicaments. The stories are loud and noisy and contain loads of onomatopoeias like “VROOSH! SKREECH! AAAARGH!” There are also very few girls shown and when they are they’re either sisters, younger or older, or teachers and there are very few female authority figures.

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Next, with girls’ comics, their male characters are typically villains, fathers and authority figures they are rarely friends or equals with females. Unlike boys, there is little about girls’ hobbies except fashion. Their stories are based on school, home and family relationships. The stories centre on emotional and personal issues such as isolation, family problems, divorce, going to a strange school. There is no action in girls’ comic – only emotional battles and arguments. The girls are seen as victims, even the main characters- they do not show anger. The girls who demonstrate action end up in disaster, girls ...

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