tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888438300076664400.post3814971005873762146..comments2014-12-09T17:25:07.561-08:00Comments on Words and Images: Jimmy Corrigan RevisionAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888438300076664400.post-78535637805572896582014-11-12T14:36:16.383-08:002014-11-12T14:36:16.383-08:00Your initial argument is overly simplistic - it wo...Your initial argument is overly simplistic - it would be overly obvious to anyone in the class.<br /><br />Your research opens interesting possibilities. The book is obviously concerned with history in general, and possibly with the history of comics in particular. If the history of comics is really about moral lessons, that’s something you could have investigated at length & in depth.<br /><br />I have trouble following any consistent thread of argument here. You jump around in the text for reasons I don’t clearly understand, and don’t really have anything clear to say about any characters, any part of the story, or really anything at all. There is an interesting thread of inquiry about mass production and how the book relates to mass production - but that isn’t a consistent and coherent argument.<br /><br />In short: I have no idea what you’re arguing or why, no idea of what in general you think about Jimmy Corrigan, other than the instructions in a limited way, and while your research has potential, I’m not sure of what you’re actually doing with it. One fundamental issue is that you take things that are obviously meant to be tongue in cheek (or ironic, or something), and take them literally, without being coherent about it - for instance, your repeated references to a “fashion statement.” So you’re looking at parts of the general instructions, but not making an interpretation of their overall meaning or importance. To use the general instructions effectively, you need to get a handle on the voice in which they are given. Why such absurd, pompous language, and how does that change our interpretation of them, for instance?Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.com