Views of a Mythical Beast
By Catherine Ho, grad student MICA's MFA Illustration Practice, Fall 2013, Critical Seminar Final Paper Read the paper
Picture Books in Childhood, Treasures for Lifetime
By Fengchu Mu, grad student MICA's MFA Illustration Practice, Fall 2013, Critical Seminar Final Paper Picture Books in Childhood, Treasures for Lifetime For my childhood, one of the most precious memories is that my father hugged me on the balcony and read the stories in the Andersen fairy tales collection to me. Although I
Embracing Technology
By Laurent Hrybyk, grad student MICA’s MFA Illustration Practice, Fall 2013, Critical Seminar Final Paper “Come gather 'round people wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin'
Havoc in Heaven and the Golden Age of Chinese Animation
By Jiashu Hu, grad student MICA's MFA Illustration Practice, Fall 2013, Critical Seminar Final Paper Read the paper
20th Century Cartoon Advertising
By Sara Lautman, grad student MICA's MFA Illustration Practice, Fall 2013, Critical Seminar, Final Paper 20th Century Cartoon Advertising Mascots Licensing and Merchandising Cartoon Characters Post WWII America was an expeditious breeding ground for consumerism. What initially followed, then quickly led, those patterns of consumption was a thoroughly profligate wall of commercialism. The Greatest Generation, flush
Wonder Woman: Origins of Disparity in the Feminist Icon and Male Fantasy
By Elisabeth Pulido, grad student MICA’s MFA Illustration Practice, Fall 2013, Critical Seminar Final Paper As super heroines go, they’ve always had a difficult time separating themselves from the sexism of their era either through ridiculous weaknesses, gender role quandaries, and character delegation as either Nymphs, Amazons or Madonnas. They’re supposed to epitomize female
Is a children’s picture book art?
By Il Sung Na, grad student MICA's Illustration Practice, Fall 2013, Critical Seminar, Final Paper Is it a book only for children? Is it easy to make one and to be an author? A well-known British author John Burningham said “If you tell people you do children’s books, they say, ‘What fun!’ There is no
Japanese comics after WWII
By Eric Ruiji Li, grad student MICA's Illustration Practice, Fall 2013, Critical Seminar, Final Paper World War II, which was the biggest war in past hundred years, influenced most countries and brought a tremendous change to world politics. Japan, a vanquished country who waged a war of aggression on its Asian neighbors, experienced a
The Stanford Torus as a Vision of the Future
By Abigail Malate, grad student MICA's MFA Illustration Practice; Fall 2013, Critical Seminar Final Paper Within the genre of science fiction, there always exists a special interest in a vehicle-- specifically a starship--that is central to the story. From the USS Enterprise to the Millennium Falcon might we list myriad famous starships. Less common, it
The Artist and The Cartoonist
By Sarah Schneider, grad student MICA's Illustration Practice, Fall 2013, Critical Seminar Final Paper. Comics have historically been separated from art and literature, cast off as a ‘low brow’ art form in the public consciousness. Generally created for reproduction, either as a disposable booklet or a humorous addition to