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| Digital Iphone art by Anthony Andujar jr |
In a nutshell the brand that I gravitate towards is Marvel and DC comics(mainly marvel.) As a kid my father and I were active comic book readers. My first two comic books that I owned was Batman (DC) and X-Men(Marvel), and since I'm a 90's kid, I was always watching the Marvel and DC cartoons that were out at the time. Those cartoons instilled some moral lessons in my life at a young age. I related to the X-men because of the fact that I had deaf parents and that I am part of the deaf community as well as the culture, and that every one no matter what race, culture, religion etc, all have a story to tell and that If we cast aside these differences then we could actually find peaceful coexistence/progress. I related to Spider-man because he was just a young guy trying to figure out his life and learned some moral lessons along the way. Also, he's a New Yorker.
I gravitated to these characters alot. My parents deaf background was one thing, but when I was 5 years old I witnessed a shooting from the 4th floor window of my old apartment on 112st in Manhattan, I felt terrified and angry. I always had superheroes as source of inspiration to strive for better, as well as a creative, and artistic escape. I drew upon spider-man alot because of the Idea of an average person who could make some sort of extraordinary difference is one of the many reasons why I love the marvel comics brand, aside from me pursuing illustration and such. -A.A.J
(at the top of the post you'll see A digital illustration that illustrated as well as a water colored one at the bottom. The Banner pic is by Gabrielle Del Otto)
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| Art by Gabrielle Del Otto lists of names by By Alex Zalben of MTV.com |
Spider-Man is the worst, he doesn't even have a cape. What kind of hero doesn't have a cape? But in all seriousness the writing is good. You can tell your ethos connection with this topic. In other subjects try and find the same feelings you got when writing this about those subjects
ReplyDeleteThanks man, I really appreciate the comment man. I would have written a batman piece, but at the time I was reflecting on some good stories that I loved and it so happened spider-man happened to have been involved in them. But I definitely agree with you, I just have to take that same kind of enthusiasm and route it to the other efforts assignments.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I'm not a huge comic book fan it's pretty cool that you are writing about your personally connection with comic books. I like your writing alot you help put a vivid image in the readers mind.
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