There should be a rule about drawing comics in America
If you suck, you shouldn't be able to get published. Bad art can make or break you. If the art is just so freaking ugly that all you can focus on is the art, then the 'good' plot is lost...if the plot was even good to begin with. What am I getting at? Simple, my teacher (who's totally not my friend but still acts like one) told me to read a book called Fun Home. To be blunt, it's about a girl growing up and when she gets into college she finds out her dad was really gay, Dad's dead by the way. Anywho, the story's about her trying to figure out the clues and what not about her now gay dad. Yeah...boring! I was so freaking bored! It's a book that's writen as a comic and...it's bad. The art is god awful and that's all I could focus on. Not to mention the characters were boring. You think they wouldn't be since it's a true story. Whatelse, well, Mr. Teacher lent me the book because he thought I'd like it. Why? Probably because dear old gay dad is a total jackass and for some reason, when people know your dad's a jackass, they think you like books about jackass dads. Not so. I"m not that petty or whatever you want to call it. I don't need to read about someone else's crapy dad to feel better about my own. That, and the main character, Alison Bechdel is a lesbian and I can't help but get the feeling that when he told me I was like her, he was implying something. I mean, yes she was a tomboy, but, me, not a tomboy.
Lastly and this is a biggy, I was flipping through the pages and caught a glims of man ass. Okay fine, man ass, not that big a deal. Flip further, blow job. DONE! The moment I saw that, I was done reading. Done! Done! Done! Done! Done!
Now, yes, I like yaoi and I have read mature yaoi manga, but still. I knew what I was getting into when I picked up that yaoi manga, but this? No, I had no idea I was going to come across it and I hate it when I stumble onto crap like that. I have told this teacher many many MANY times that I do not like being blindsited by sex whether it be movies or books. I want to know it's there so I can skip it if I don't want see/read it. Think what you want, I am not ashamed to say that I think sex is gross.
You're now probably wondering why a topic like that would come up with a teacher, well I read One Flew Over the Coo-coo's Nest in one of his classes, then there was the movie Boy's Don't Cry, and creative writing when he decided to show us students that people DO write about sexual stuff, then there was the poem comparing a car to sex..yeah..dude.
Lastly and this is a biggy, I was flipping through the pages and caught a glims of man ass. Okay fine, man ass, not that big a deal. Flip further, blow job. DONE! The moment I saw that, I was done reading. Done! Done! Done! Done! Done!
Now, yes, I like yaoi and I have read mature yaoi manga, but still. I knew what I was getting into when I picked up that yaoi manga, but this? No, I had no idea I was going to come across it and I hate it when I stumble onto crap like that. I have told this teacher many many MANY times that I do not like being blindsited by sex whether it be movies or books. I want to know it's there so I can skip it if I don't want see/read it. Think what you want, I am not ashamed to say that I think sex is gross.
You're now probably wondering why a topic like that would come up with a teacher, well I read One Flew Over the Coo-coo's Nest in one of his classes, then there was the movie Boy's Don't Cry, and creative writing when he decided to show us students that people DO write about sexual stuff, then there was the poem comparing a car to sex..yeah..dude.