Week 8 Stereotypes

For this week, I've read the web comic online called “Lighten Up”. What I thought of the comic was very interesting because of the way they mainly used the comic box types. What I mean is that the way the artist who drew the comic didn’t use the standard type of comic boxes with black outlines. Instead he just put borderless boxes and stuck them together which creates an interesting artistic style that stood out to me. The very nice color of the piece helps illustrate the main point of the comic, which was to highlight the black and white stereotype issues.  

I particularly love the Photoshop references it made to highlight this skin color issue even more by putting in color numbers normally found in said programs. The cel-shaded appearance of the comic helps it to give a nice look as well as it emphasizes on the simplistic idea of color and tone, nothing else. Overall this all helps the main theme of the story which was how the artist felt when he had to change a particular character’s skin tone color from darker to lighter all because of what he believes to be skin tone color intolerance.