Two Fantasy Comics of Interest
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scans_dailyMiyazaki's Concepts of Good vs. Evil, and Matt Rhode's 'My Hero'
Though not strictly actual comics in the sense that they'd be okay in of themselves to be posted here, I thought that these are relevant enough to our community that people might think that they're cool in their own right.
First off, a comic based on various interviews of Hayao Miyazaki, and his ideas behind storytelling, female characters and his opinions on the natures of good and evil.
From here,
http://sapphiresky1410.deviantart.com/
On a related note, if you haven't seen Princess Mononoke go! Do it now! It's one of those rare films that involve "environmental" issues that doesn't paint the non-nature side as villains. In fact, no one really is a "villain" in this movie, just different sorts of people. Go watch it.
And on a similar fantasy scale, here's My Hero, by Matt Rhodes, who did some of the concept artwork for Mass Effect, as well as the Disney Apocalypse painting from a FanArt Thursday way, Wayyy back when,
http://mattrhodes.deviantart.com/
For the legalities, a cover from the Wildstorm remake of the Thunderbolt Jaxon comicbook series, which is itself something of an underrated fantasy comic (the remake, the original British version I haven't seen),
Though not strictly actual comics in the sense that they'd be okay in of themselves to be posted here, I thought that these are relevant enough to our community that people might think that they're cool in their own right.
First off, a comic based on various interviews of Hayao Miyazaki, and his ideas behind storytelling, female characters and his opinions on the natures of good and evil.
From here,
http://sapphiresky1410.deviantart.com/
On a related note, if you haven't seen Princess Mononoke go! Do it now! It's one of those rare films that involve "environmental" issues that doesn't paint the non-nature side as villains. In fact, no one really is a "villain" in this movie, just different sorts of people. Go watch it.
And on a similar fantasy scale, here's My Hero, by Matt Rhodes, who did some of the concept artwork for Mass Effect, as well as the Disney Apocalypse painting from a FanArt Thursday way, Wayyy back when,
http://mattrhodes.deviantart.com/
For the legalities, a cover from the Wildstorm remake of the Thunderbolt Jaxon comicbook series, which is itself something of an underrated fantasy comic (the remake, the original British version I haven't seen),
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Date: 2012-03-14 02:53 pm (UTC)secondly i LOVE that Matt Rhodes strip, especially the part where he's like... "Wait... I am REALLY hot... screw this! she could have had a nice guy! AWAAAAAY!"
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Date: 2012-03-15 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-15 05:24 am (UTC)Take me! take me RIGHT NOW!...
forgive me... you spoke my language and there a scant few who can do that :D
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Date: 2012-03-15 12:04 pm (UTC)I got to write a Miyazaki paper in college once, and there's a lot I have to say on the subject.
But for both my personal writing and film theory, female protagonists and subverting the traditional Good vs Evil structure is a big part of that (morally, it's mostly Grey vs Grey, but also a very classical Creation vs Destruction dichotomy, even within individuals, much like Miyazaki says).