Watchmen, A Comic Book

The watcher is a revolutionary literary work. It is technically a cartoon book, and some people like to call it a graphic novel. This has a negative meaning. Graphical novels are considered too naive to actually teach knowledgeable courses and they can not even make them think about it. The witness is a graphic novel that exceeds this excessive criticism of cartoon books. It is one of the first examples of a new manga book ... the first stage of development, the transition of a super hero from fantasy to literature "(Klock, pgs.

Written by security guard Alan Moore, a series of cartoons published in 1986 and 1987 is considered a typical example of this movement. Moore has used the story of security guards to provide a social commentary on contemporary modern anxiety and has criticized the concept of super heroes for nearly half a century since 1938. A superhero appeared in the 1940s and 1960s, won the Second World War, and helped America win the Vietnam War. Because this country is engaged in a nuclear war with the Soviets, which is the number one superpower in the world, the police who wore the clothes were banned and the superhero retired. The ultimate retired superhero must retire in the face of conspiracy to stop nuclear war at the expense of millions of lives.

Recently, when the famous manga book author Stanley called it "the most popular comic book outside Marvel", the position of the watcher as a pioneering book in the field of manga books has recently been improved. The comment of "Revolutionary SF" continues to say that the watcher is "one of the most important stories in the history of cartoons", and there are criticisms of the witness. As far as the art is concerned, one commentator will describe the color as "flat", "contrast". Others questioned the complexity of the guards and the involvement of Gibbons, criticizing the long-term impact of the work and the overall influence of Alan Moore, "Manga books must" grow " "I asked.

In "Manga Art: The History of Aesthetics," Robert Harvey, along with Watchman, wrote that Moore and Gibbons "showed the power of the media in an unprecedented way to tell complex stories that can only be designed with comics" There. . Dave Itzkoff of New York Times wrote in his comment about the absolute version of this series, the dark legacy of a security guard. The basic element of the contemporary super hero cartoon book in the story is the "yes" essentially the field he has fundamentally given to writers and artists who share his obsession with barbarous, but he I'm not interested in. On the contrary, it creates the opposite effect and makes a super hero manga into a "slum dwindling in a serious and spiritual".