Week Six

This week we exported the strange and nonsensical world of underground comics. These were comics that were written, published, and distributed with out the approval of any rating or approval system used back in that time. Because of this artists were free to explore taboo subjects in comics such as sex, war, etc. This also shows how anyone could write a comic if they so desired such as people do now on the internet, however it doesn't mean that they will of should be appreciated. This also caused a lot of the drawing to possibly be bad, as many of these people were not trained artists like those who did main stream comics such as Carl Barks, Will Eisner, or Jack Kirby.

I had read some of the Tijuana bibles, Air Pirates, and yellow dog comics in and out of class. I actually couldn't finished most of them because after reading only a couple of pages I was either extremely offended, angered, or confused beyond belief. For example a lot of these had scenes involving inappropriate sexual situations that not only were offensive to many but also glorified some of these acts as if they were all over our culture, which may or may not be true, which I found disturbing that people would think about it and actually write and draw about it. Like I said earlier though I can decide whether or not I want to read them and whether or not I want to appreciate them either so I do find that trait admirable.