Week 14 the Motion Comics and Webcomics (5 points)

 This week we had the chance to explore the world of motion comics and webcomics. 
this is a subject that has become more and more popular recently and has grown immensely in the past couple of years. there is definitely a necessity for finding new and exciting stories coming from different sources than the mainstream media. mostly because those places have been already heavily influenced by the social justice warriors or the family-friendly mafia.

when big companies like Disney or DreamWorks etc get involved is very difficult to have creative freedom and these spaces online are definitely ways that we can embrace that type of freedom to create interesting and meaningful stories.

this week I had the chance to read the octopus pie collection. it was a very interesting experience. the drawing style is very much a hybrid that reminds me of the art of Bryan lee O'Malley in the Scott pilgrim comics with the Simpsons style of expressions and forms. there are many interesting aspects of how these styles apply to this type of story. the looseness of the Scott pilgrim's gestures helps the characters become easier to read from distance and identify as who they are. and the basic expressions found in the Simpsons gave the characters a default emotion where we can expect a specific action from them. these aspects created a pattern that is easy to identify and feel connected to during the reading.

now talking about the subjects treated octopus pie is a story mostly directed to people from 18-28 years old treating the struggles of moving from high school life to a more self-dependant atmosphere. there is not much of this transition that I have seen in comics but the fact that I haven't seen it doesn't mean that is not popular genera. the main two characters in the comic represent two different possible versions of what you can become after you leave the bubble of high school or even college. one represents the struggle to create real emotional connections and to feel that you belong in society, convincing yourself daily that for some reason life is always trying to screw you up but you manage to overcome that. and the other character represents the layback subject who is not really aware of the function of society and instead of assuming her own life she created another bubble similar to avoid taking responsibility. these second characters seem happier than the first one but both have a very deep emotional struggle with the place that they fit in their society.  

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