Sunday 30 January 2011

Comic research, Superman illustrator Joe Shuster.

Joe shuster's art work appears to take influences from 'Flim Noir', with the use of oversized cars and the same style of characters with suits and hats.

Superman was the first comic to portray a character that was supernaturally endowed. The comic is draw in such a way that the reader is left to imagine certain parts with make it more engaging.

Superman is about a man from outer space that has been sent to earth as a baby. As he grows up he discovers that he has supernatural powers which he uses to help people in need. This style of character was very liberating at the time of release, 1938. During this time people were felling more and more insecure about the security of the country with WWII starting in 1939.

The Superman comic is mainly based in New York City Where Superman's alter ego, Clark Kent, works as a journalist for the "Daily Planet". The setting also changes as Superman travels around the world to fore fill his good deeds.
The comic is set in the time at which is is written.
Superman was started at a time when national moral was on a down, and by introducing this character that could stand up for America and defend agains all danger, it was an instant hit. The Superman comics were used by the government to convey national security in a sublime way, in many of the issues published Superman is shown fighting Hitler and the Japanese, all at the time when America was at war with these people.


In the Superman comics, Superman, is always the focal point of the frame with his red and blue suit and the baddies as a dark drawings with deranged facial expressions.
  

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