An original comic by Jade Greer
I consider Fun Home one of my favorite texts we have read in Arts One, so I thought it would be fun try and make my own comic. To provide some background information on the story I’m about to illustrate: … Continue reading →
The Significance of Memory
Since I just uploaded my blog post on Riding the Trail of Tears, I wanted to draw a parallel between Hausman’s cyberpunk historical fiction novel and author Alison Bechdel’s “family tragicomic”, Fun Home. Both works place great significance on the role of memory in the narrative frame. Despite both pieces being entire different in genre and subject matter, the […]
Buddha (vol. 1) and Pop Culture
One of the things that I found most striking about Buddha (Vol. 1) by Osamu Tezuka is the juxtaposition between the story itself and the frequent popular/modern culture references that are made throughout, including the way in which the art … Continue reading →
Comical Conjectures on the Art of Comics
According to my father, there is a play out there titled simply Art. The main issue in this play is apparently that one character buys a canvas painted white for an exorbitant price, which leads to a series of jokes/conjectures regarding the state … Continue reading →
Visual Language in Tezuka’s Buddha Vol. 1
In Arts One this week we read Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha: Kapilavastu, which is the first volume in Tezuka’s Buddha series. As usual for Arts One, there was so much to talk about and I wanted to raise some issues and questions that we didn’t get time to discuss. The problem is that I left my […]
The power of castes
Hi all, For today’s presentation I wanted to focus on castes in the book. Throughout the whole book most of the characters suffer from their caste and the way the have to live because of it. Chapra’s main goal is to escape his slave condition and become a general, or a king. I was a bit surprised […]
Visual context
The context in which art in placed can completely change the meaning that we interpret from it. When reading and examining Buddha we are more concerned with the relationship between each image than with than we are with each image alone. This then brings attention to the traditions and shots being used on each page […]
Tatta: Comic Relief or Substance?
In Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha (Volume 1) involves the character of Tatta, a boy of the lowest class in society to the point of being barely considered apart of it. It is revealed throughout the story that Tatta has some extraordinary powers and morals. His ability to transfer his soul into the bodies of animals, and his […]
“Sons and Lovers”? No, “[Mothers] and Sons”
Hello all! Further to our discussion last day, I’d like to summarize and flesh out my points a little bit regarding the relationship between Chapra and his mother – I think my discussion was a bit too hasty, and I apologize. The three main points I had wanted to discuss were: The suggested nature of […]
Reading Buddha = Oedipus Flashbacks
I don’t know if it was just me, but didn’t some concepts in Tezuka’s Buddha remind anyone of anything? Because for me, I got little glimpses of flashbacks back to Oedipus Rex. Yeah, THAT far back. The main aspect I picked up on was that both texts explore the themes of fate in a sense.…