Hi All
Here are this week’s lecture notes as well as the links to the comics and cartoons we saw. Once again, sorry that last class was delayed because I missed a ferry connection. However we did manage to go through the comic genre pretty thoroughly.
Please remember Tuesday the 6th’s class is cancelled because I have to fly to New York for an On Campus interview. On Thursday the 8th I will give out information about the Cracked Listicle Project. If you have a group of people you are already interested in working with, send me an e-mail with their names. (Your group should have no more than 5 people). Otherwise we will put the groups together on the 8th. We will be presenting the listicles on the 29th. Final essays will be due April 10th.
Argentina-and-Peronismos
The LAST 100 page has several speeches by Evita Perón including the one in which she demurred running for president and then “caved” to the pressure of the people. As well as her radio address in which she renounced her candidacy. You can check those out under “More resources”
Comics in Argentina
Here are the links to the comics we saw:
Humor
Mafalda
Clemente
Super Clemente Rescata a la Mulatona (YouTube video Spanish Only)
Las Puertitas del Sr. Lopez
(And also, because I mentioned it in class, the TV Tropes entry for Woobie)
Sci Fi:
El Eternauta
Also did you know that the comic Cyber Six was originally made in Argentina by Carlos Trillo, before the rights were sold to a Japanese company and turned into a TV series?
Well it was!
So for this weekend’s blog, discuss your opinion on the relationship between comics and culture. Are comics merely forms of brain-rotting escapism? Or are they, as Oscar Masotta explains, inseparable from their historical moment and context? Discuss one comic you found particularly incisive in its comments on Argentine society.
Interesting topics for research papers and or Cracked Project:
Comparison between Lisa Simpson and Mafalda (any influences there?)
Representation of Childhood in Mafalda
Representation of Race/Class in Clemente (I saw you all cringing there)
Evita Peron’s use of the media (link with some of the themes of No?)
Transgenderism in Cyber Six
The Sci-fi genre in Argentine literature and popular culture (Borges/Cortázar etc.)