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Dec. 2nd, 2013 10:07 pmI got the research report done today! Still not sure how to present it on Wednesday... I think I'll just read it, it should be fifteen minutes if I read it slowly enough.
The comix paper though... I gave up trying to plan it and basically sat down and word-vomited about 5 pages. They are not terrible pages? Maybe? We'll see what else I can crack out. I at least want to cover:
- the antho has different styles, some of which make identifying ethnicity easier than others. but maybe that's not what I should be focusing on; i should be looking at what the project of the antho is: a rejection of the white default by instituting a different default ethnic mode
- comix are a combo of visuals AND text, so what does the text do to encode ethnicity? how does the art itself, as in the visual arrangement, help enforce what the text is trying to say? what are some tiny little cues that signify a racialized narrative without the character being visually coded that way?
- what cultural references are there? what history does it revisit? there's a criteria of what makes a superhero... how do the characters here embrace or reject those criteria?
The comix paper though... I gave up trying to plan it and basically sat down and word-vomited about 5 pages. They are not terrible pages? Maybe? We'll see what else I can crack out. I at least want to cover:
- the antho has different styles, some of which make identifying ethnicity easier than others. but maybe that's not what I should be focusing on; i should be looking at what the project of the antho is: a rejection of the white default by instituting a different default ethnic mode
- comix are a combo of visuals AND text, so what does the text do to encode ethnicity? how does the art itself, as in the visual arrangement, help enforce what the text is trying to say? what are some tiny little cues that signify a racialized narrative without the character being visually coded that way?
- what cultural references are there? what history does it revisit? there's a criteria of what makes a superhero... how do the characters here embrace or reject those criteria?