Comic Reflection

Andrew Tolentino
Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

The way we queered up the structure in our comic book was by changing the conventional ways of making shojo and shonen manga presented in Meyer’s reading. In the first scene in our comic we changed the way shojo manga is made by making the panels represent action. This is seen through the car quickly braking while the tourist jaywalks sidetracked with his phone in the main panel. This allows us to slow down the fast-paced action that goes on in shonen manga and allow the readers to take in and observe a scene that would be fast paced in shonen through the slow pace and observational panels seen in common shojo manga. In scene two we did the reverse by having shonen style panels seen through the jagged panels but with scenes that are typically in shojo manga. In our comic, this is portrayed in the second panel with the tourist looking very majestic and wealthy. By representing these shojo scenes in shonen style panels this allows the reader to dynamically observe these panels as they usually do in shonen manga which usually consists of climatic scenes. Lastly, in our last comic scene we changed up the way how male shonen writers usually display SD scenes with male characters being the deformed ones and seeing women as normal size. This is usually implemented in a comedic sense however for the majority of shonen writers it is always the men be shown as the SD characters and the women they go nuts for. We wanted to change that by doing the reverse in a shonen style manga with Figure 9 in the reading being our example. So we did the reverse, to some extent, by switching the roles and having a female SD character. However, even though the gender of the tourist is never identified in our comic by placing a female SD character and having a nosebleed scene wanted the readers to see that this can still be just as humorous in shonen manga if the SD character was male.

Gender and Media: Summer 2017

Reflections on readings from HUM208:Gender and Media at Illinois Tech. Instructor: Michael A. DeAnda

Thanks to Michael DeAnda

Andrew Tolentino
Gender and Media: Summer 2017
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