My Comic!

My comic has four panels. It shows a small worm like demon who wants to go for a swim on a sunny day. Unfortunately he spots a shark in the lake! He then realizes its his purple friend playing a trick on him. They go swimming together. Although they are the same type of demon I made them two different colors so you can tell them apart.

I decided to not use words in my comic. Since the first two panels only had one real character in them I decided a thought bubble would suffice. In the third panel the purple worm is winking, which shows that he is kidding. In the fourth panel, the pure joy on their faces shows their emotions where words could not.

I'm not really sure how I would change it. I'm pretty happy with how "Going Swimming" turned out. Maybe I would add dialouge, or a few frames to continue the story. Perhaps I would have the red worm playing a trick on the purple worm.

Modified Collage

This is the second version of my collage. I added a few more layers to it. This version contains some veins from a hand, as well as a large glove in the background. Now there are four versions of the human hand on my collage. Each one shows a different interpretation of the human hand, how they are represented in our lives. One is scientific, a map of veins. The second is what we see on the outside, without diving in too deep. The other is reaching out to God, a hand looking to be held, representing the human need for connection. The fourth is glove, covering any imperfections, looking just like everyone else's.

I also changed the background to pink, to look a little more like Oppenheim's. I think this makes the center stand our more, and look a little more interesting. Pink is not a color found in any of my images, just like it was a kind of random color for the original picture.

I think my collage looks pretty cool. I like all of the layers in it...now it actually means something to me. I didn't really think much of Oppenhiems....but mine seems pretty cool.

Collage 1

This is my first version of my collage. I chose to add a park in the background, because the word Parkett stood out to me. I don't know if that is someones name or if its about a little park, but thinking about park in the context of Oppenheim's image seems cool to me.

I chose the map of the park because I thought it showed just how opposite from nature a park is. It is plotted and planned, and there is really nothing natural about it. I thought this was similar to gloves. Gloves aren't really like real hands.. they are generic and don't really mimic what real hands are like.

The gloves also made me think of fakeness of our materialistic lives. We cover up and change what we really our (our anatomy, our veins) in order to look more generic. I chose to show an image of real hands and the drawn hands of Adam and God from the Sistine Chapel as different levels of realness and fakeness.

Oppenheim: Glove for Parkett

With a pink background, the brown, worn gloves stand out. The red veins look like those that might be within human hands ( I couldn't say for sure.. I don't know what those veins actually look like.). The gloves don't look like actual hands, while the veins seem to be painstakingly realistic.

This could represent the fakeness that we often put on our outsides to cover up the inside. We dress up, put make up on, do our hair, act a certain way in order to cover whats truly on the inside. This picture puts the inside out, and shows us what maybe we don't wan to see. It ignores the squeamish aversion to the human anatomy, preferring a more streamlined and generic outside.

I'm not sure what the word Parkett means, but it makes me think of park. I think this kind of pertains to the image. Parks are supposed to represent nature in a more urban setting, but generally they are trimmed, mowed, perfectly manicured version of nature. Nature is dirty, overgrown, sometimes ugly, much like the inside of our bodies. They are perfect or pretty. I may try to reverse the effect of the gloves, by showing a human hand with a generic version of the insides of our hands.

Summary of Comic Strip

Basically in the comic I posted, Charlie Brown and a friend are discussing criticism. I'm guessing its Charles Shulz commenting on criticism of his work, but I am only guessing. They believe it is nearly impossible to please vast amounts of people. They are the only two in the strip, and they remain stationary, standing at a brick wall, often seen in other Peanuts comics.

Comic Strip

The original publish date of this Peanuts comic, by Charles M Shulz, was March 8 1962.

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