Understanding Comics

I enjoyed the part of the comic where it talked Japan's manga comics and how sometimes they use detail to emphasise importance of objects. Such as, when the narrator cartoon guy was swinging the sword around and it looked cartoony and we got the information. But, when he stopped to look at the sword it looked very detailed and beautiful. I think that this techique is good at showing extreems. Such as ugly or beautiful. Take for instance Spongebob. The world they are drawn in is pretty neutral or basically drawn, however, when they zoom in on a characters face and it is drawn detailed, it looks very ugly. You can see every poor and pimple and wrinkle on the cute cartoon's face and its funny. 

 

I have to say that I do like western cartoons and comics, compared to most Japanese cartoons and comics. First thing that bugs me is the lack of originality. It seems that Western cartoons are more iconic than Japanesse ones. Like it says in the comic most people respond better to icons. There are many cartoon characters from America, that I would recognise if they were only siloettes. However, there are only two I think I would regonize from Japan and that would be Sailor Moon. It's because of the iconic hair and outfit. Nothing else besides the distinct hair and clothes are very original about the way it is drawn. 

   

One other thing I do not like about Japanese comics is the very detailed backgrounds and the simplified characters. I think it looks very mismached and it is honestly pretty hard to look at and it gives me a headache. Because, in my mind the two should not match up together. I feel that detail in cartoons should only be enphasised very limitedly and only in times of importance. 

Speaking of detail I also really enjoyed the part of the comic where the little narrator man talked about how detail could be distracting from the message. In the one pannel he is drawn more detailed an more realistic. I was paying attention to him more than what he was saying. Rather than the simplified recognizable drawn version of him, the message did not have to compete. I also perfer western cartoons  to Japanese comics and cartoons because, usually Japanese cartoons have more of a complex story behind them and a lot is going on and the cartoon is drawn simple. I find it very mixed matched and unejoyable. Take X-men comics and superhero comics in general. X-men is a very detailed comic with a very complex and layered story. I find the two to go together. Perhaps culture has another factor in preferance. Maybe I don't enjoy the Manga comics is because of the culture difference. It is something I  may have to learn to understand.