Week six

This week I read some Zap Comixs in addition to the other underground comics that we read in class.

    The underground comics overall resembles more with the newspaper comics in terms of format, and is less like a graphic novel. For the most part they don’t have a lot of variations with different angles and shots to tell a story. The stories are often short and not as complex as for example Will Eisner’s stories. That is why they don't really require dynamic film language to make their story work. Some of the underground comics are heavily objectifying women. I really don't like some of the underground comics about that.

   Compared to the other underground comics that I read in class, “Zap Comix” doesn't have a lot of sexual related subjects and the use of drug. It is in a way not so much different then that of a newspaper comic strip. In the first strip the way he draws himself as a character and said he was up to something is quite interesting.