Response on Comic Books

One unique characteristic that I noticed when it comes to the age of comic books is that the artists start to gear their comic towards a specific audience group. The style of drawings and the story both evolved to fit their desired audience. The Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics catch young audience’s eyes with cartoony drawing and bright stories, while the superhero comics engages young adults with hope, action, and fights, and the EC comics creates darker stories to fit the adult's taste of wanting more mature and realistic stories.

Another unique sign that I noticed is that along with the development of the printing skills, comics start to rely on color language to represent the mood of the story and the characters' personalities. When I read the Superman comics, I noticed that Superman is colored in the most straight forward and primary colors - red, yellow, and blue. While the bad guys of the chapters are commonly colored in dark green or purple, which create strong contrast with the hero's bright, primary colors. I started to wonder if the color theory on characters started taking place at this time or perhaps earlier?

Another sign that I found out is the emergence of comic companies and ads. This especially comes to play in the superhero comics. When I was reading the Batman comics, there were about 3 to 4 pages of advertisement per comicbook that advertises other heroes from the DC company. I think it is a smart way to gain loyalty of the audience and to advertise them other comics of the same genre that they may be interested in.

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