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Anime Fillers Ruin Manga Adaptations?
Here’s a million dollar question: Why are there so many fillers in long running anime? An anime is typically adapted from another source material. Usually it’s either a manga (like Naruto or World...
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The Killing Adaptation
I noticed that there was already an article about Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke, but this article will be touching on some other points. You may know that an animated adaptation for this graphic...
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Keeping Shakespeare Relevant
William Shakespeare’s plays have been around for 400 years or so and while there have been a multitude of movie/stage adaptations of the Bards famous plays, graphic retellings haven’t shared the same...
View ArticleThe Game of Adaptation
Don Quixote, Metamorphosis, Infinite Jest. These are just three novels that have been adapted visually by those who have a vision. A vision of how certain characters really look, when descriptions in...
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Holy Character Design Batman!
As comic books have evolved over the years, their stories and characters have grown as well. Golden age superheroes have been given sleek new looks, and darker storylines as comics move into the...
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The Girl On Fire! Just Not In A Graphic Novel
In 2012, the world was taken back when the novel, The Hunger Games, by Suzanna Collins, was adapted into a box office hit. Since then, the world has been wanting more and more ‘Hunger Games’ in various...
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Yu-Gi-Oh: A Transmedia Case Study
I remember in third grade hearing about a trading card game called “Yu-Gi-Oh,” and I thought it was the strangest thing. Then everyone I knew started buying the cards, and “dueling” at recess, so I had...
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Transmedia, Superhero Movies and Comic Books
Over the years, storytelling has expanded across multiple types of media. This idea of transmedia content has greatly affected the world of comic books and how we see our favorite characters. These...
View ArticleThe Duck Comic
During our Wed. class we were separated into groups and assigned to recreate a page from the Donald Duck vacation comic. The actual frames in the comic look like they would be easy to do. One has...
View ArticleSelf-Discovery in Fun Home
I actually first discovered Fun Home last Spring, when a Broadway-obsessed friend showed me a clip from the Tony Awards in which cast members of the musical version of the book sang the song Ring of...
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