1. According to Horricks (2004), how have perceptions of comics
changed?
According to Horricks (2004), In the 1950s, comics were regarded as bad influence to children in America, England, New Zealand. Comics have been criticized on the National radio by R.R.D. Fairburn whereas Bill Pearson also have written to Landfall that comics were ruining children and if children were banned to read comics, war could be reduced. However, nowadays, comics ,graphic novels, are regualarly reviewed in the NY REview of Books, have beeen awarded the Pulizer Prize and Guardian Fist Book Award. Even comics have been reviewed and published by Landfall.
2. What does Khordoc think the Astrix series does better thand Herge's Tintin?
According to Khordoc (2001), although Herges create of effect of sound in Tintin book series, it is not enough 'audiable' or 'noisy' than the Astrix series. Because Tintin series are based on narrative plot and charactors are narrative too so, the story have the speech balloon and rely on the text too. In the case of Asterix, sound is used creating humor, which is the series' main purpose.
References
Horricks, D. (2004). The Perfect Planet: Comics, games and world-building. In Williams,
M. (Ed.), Writing at the Edge of the Universe.
Khordok, C. (2001). The Comics Book’s Soundtrack: Visual Sound-effects in Asterix.
In Varnum, R. & Gibbons, C. (Eds.), The Language of Comics: word and image,
(pp.156-173).
Both these responses really need to be developed in more detail - engaging more directly with the theoretical literature and dveloping your own opinion much further. It's up to you, but my advice would be to respond to the weekly questions that haven't already been answered in this blog - this would make it more interesting.
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