#sociology in comics

[happyroadkillart]

actually made this before the election tho seems slightly more relevant after watching CA vote no on things like rent control and, like, Prohibiting Slavery

[tootalltech]

alright hear me out. if matthew damon was somehow cast as superman in batman vs superman dawn of justice (2016)- AND I’M NOT SAYING HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN, BUT IF HE WAS- there would’ve been a social network esque press tour that would force snyderbros to reconcile with the truth of superbat. it would force everyone who paid attention to anything to do with the movie to reconcile with the truth of superbat. like. there’d be rumors. there’d be interview clips going around of at least one of them joking about them being married way too much. you see my vision

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

I gotta say, the politics of Jason Todd's crusade are pretty fucking authoritarian. Forget Jason for a second, I'm taking about the politics, the rhetoric, the actions; it's fucking terrifying and frankly ill-informed. I'll add; the death penalty, as well as being fucking cruel, does not deter crime; it's a historically racist method of coercion and control.

Source: Batman and Robin #6 and #23

Like what's a crime Jason? Who gets to decide that's undesirable? Who does this institution of "law and order" actually protect and benefit? Who does it actually cripple? What's the history behind this institution and is it actually just? What exactly makes you different to a brutal cop?

And look, I don't care who you like Jason written by and who you don't, I'm not talking about what his favourite Jane Austen book is. I'm talking about the scary as fuck politics of dishing out murder as punishment, treating any breaking of the law as deserving of torture and not even interrogating the unjust history that gave us the rule of law you adhere to so dogmatically. You can't defend a low-lying beach.

Disclaimer: this was not about making moralistic claims about a fictional character, it's about putting a name to a fascist-adjacent politics which authors weren’t pulling their punches in showing.

[patemi-pk]

I've already said it somewhere, but I think it would be interesting to study this field as scholars do academicaly for various works of art and literature. For example, we need a feminist reading of Xadhoom's storyarc.

Like, she is a super-qualified woman, that, thanks to her capabilities, quite literally, reaches the stars. And she is compensated with the distruction of her people and a consuming yearn for a traditional family role she is doomed to never get.

[queercodedangel]

Reminder that power, retribution & revenge fantasies in the form of "great men" do not provide justice in any meaningful systemic and material way. It's just a patriarchal power fetish.

Change has historically been achieved primarily through the collective action and resistance of those most marginalized by the existing social order, not through some privileged powerful individuals.

[eclecticarbiterinternet]

[kafkasapartment]

Dear Lonely Hearts (and back cover) #3 (Comic Media, 1953). Marty Elkin cover and art.

[s008m]

yep

[explodingstarlight]

soooooo we never got to see that much of the societal complexities or internal power structures of the Hidden City in Rise and i was thinking it would be interesting to explore (i have a LOT of headcanons).

if I were to make a comic that also explores it,,,?? 👀

[sunnycanwrite]

you need a sibling? Boom you got one, it's me. What you can expect is:

Poorly singing Oh my darlin, Clementine while you try to sleep

Randomly throwing shit at you and promptly leaving

Asking the same question three times, because I need confirmation

My tea obsession

Making you buy me food with gluten in it even though it won't end well

i can't drive, so suffer

Batman obbesion

Calling you twenty times a day, no warning.

[happyroadkillart]

what did he mean by this

[welcome-to-latveria]

Stop trying to make 'mutant culture' happen. It's not going to happen.

[friedoats]

I hate having people ask me what my special interest is because most autistic people get to be oh its just this one niche thing like bugs or trains. But nooo my special interest is storytelling as a whole and that takes five fucking minutes for me to fully explain so people understand.

And it took me 5 years to figure out what it was because it was all so broad, but i knew that its was all connected but didnt have the word to connect them

[chickenscratch-comics]

[thebusylilbee]

"The lengthy graphic training necessary to acquire the skills required by comics, especially in their 'realistic' form, with its battle scenes, moving crowds, chases, etc., as well as the length and meticulousness involved in the execution of each panel (on average, comics artists spend 6 to 9 hours a day at the drawing board to produce 1 to 4 panels a week), tend to favour workers endowed, by class habitus, with the values of 'diligence', 'seriousness' and 'hard work' and, correlatively, to discourage the "artistic" inclinations of teenagers from the upper classes who are relatively deprived of cultural capital - at least school certified cultural capital - who, on the other hand, find in photography, an activity where technical constraints are almost non-existent and working time is reduced to a minimum, the ideal terrain for showcasing their social capital, their "taste" and the "manners" they owe to their family heritage."

Source : Boltanski Luc. La constitution du champ de la bande dessinée. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 1, n°1, janvier 1975. Hiérarchie sociale des objets. pp. 37-59. [Original text in french, translation is mine]

okay so this quote is from an old academic article about comics and im sharing it bc oh my god that last part about rich kids with limited talent choosing photography to express their "artistic inclinations" inevitably made me think about Brooklyn Beckham's infamous photography book

[syphoncontinuity]

Here we go again.

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