Min Kim LitComics

I think with the digital medium now comics are bigger culture than ever, spreading across all kinds of platforms both traditional and digital. I am most familiar with the South Korean web comics that Naver runs, with hundreds of comics being already completed and new comics bring new content every week or even twice to five times a week. The style vary vastly aiming for all age groups and gender, creating a pool of works where anyone could find a piece they could enjoy. It is really easy to follow as content is brought to you weekly, and it is personally something I look forward to with its accessibility through a mobile device. It is also really easy to communicate with the authors. The necessity to keep up with the weekly deadline tend to exhaust a lot of artists who then take a temporary break to recharge and prepare before returning. Provided as a free service that runs ads, this platform allows millions of comic readers to have access to amazing content easily and for free(complet

I read This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki. It was beautifully illustrated following a story of a girl dealing with family problems, friends, and drama during her stay at a lake during summer vacation. I thought it was really moving to see such an in depth description of the characters and their conflicts during their vacation and how Rose comes to find peace with her family and about growing up. I was personally touched because there are inevitably times when I become frustrated with family matters. Even though parents are one of the people you think you get to know very well, but at least in our family it feels like we always hide our pains and hardships from one another, and it's hard to see eye to eye on a lot of things. I think it could be a generational thing, but also the environment I was raised in was completely different from how they grew up. I think this story could relate to many readers because we all experience issues within family and friends, and th

1. What is your reaction to the text you just read? With the reinvention of Batman into a darker world exploring deep philosophical ideas, the eternal conflict between batman and joker almost seems like an interpretation of humanity. The ideas presented are dark but touches on emotions of being human and being vulnerable to suffering. 2. What connections did you make with the story that you read, discuss the elements of the work of which you were able to connect. Joker, being one of the best known villains of all time, had to be reiterated multiple times throughout the history of Batman, and the depiction in the Killing Joke really turned him into a dark, cruel character but with a origin story that fueled his transformation. It feels like he is the embodiment of pain that the world brings about and he is expressing the cruel nature of it outwards through his words and actions. He is salty about batman's ideal logic of trying to save Gotham and fed up, and he wants to prove h