Week 6 Underground Comics

This week I read Zap Comix and Arcade. I found most of them to have narratives and style that I have not encountered a lot before. Some of them had non linear storytelling and many had many graphic and explicit contents. I think it offers a different experience compared to previous comic books and comic strips, not only because it offers adult exclusive content but it experiments and questions a lot about what we know. Some comics makes me uncomfortable because it doesn't resolve the craving for typical narrative that I am used to but rather ends in an unexpected way before I know it. While each comic seems random and vague, I think they influenced graphic novels of the future with the way narratives could be told and the potential of storytelling.

While some comics had a comic style of drawing, some had beautiful detailed drawings with beautiful illustrations. I especially thought that Arcade had striking visuals that really started to feel more graphic novel than comic. It is interesting to see change of perception in potential of visual narratives and the development.

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