Week 11 – Contemporary Literature

I’ve read the comic called Asterios Polyp and what the comic is about is a professor with the same name as the title who teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca. What basically happened was that a lightning strike burns his home and he is forced to leave and take a job somewhere far away from where he originally lived. From there he had to deal with his past life and the troubles he had such as his childhood, marriage, and confrontation of his flawed nature.  

Overall, I like the art style of the comic with its purple and blue coloring

It also embarks on different drawing styles, which I thought was great for separating Polyp from the others. There was one scene where Polyp was arguing to his wife about his constant behavior of only thinking about himself. His wife was shaded in some sort of realistic shading which made her look like she was in the reality of things. This is in stark contrast with Polyp who is drawn very lightly with lines kind of like geometric shapes. This gives Polyp a feeling of someone who is not grounded in reality, but who is only in his head, which sends a great message about who he is at this time, and I think that was really interesting.