Old Comics vs. New Comics

From the 1930’s to 1980’s, the comic book artists went through different perils from degrading children’s minds to putting words like “weird”, “horror”, and “ terror” in their comics. Now the comic book artists have shown a lot of improvement with the way they design their characters to how they make a storyline. Everybody enjoys the famous superheroes like Superman, Batman, Spiderman, and many more, but I have found other artists on the other side of the world I love to read. The comic book artists are from Japan and the word for comic book in Japanese is “manga.”  One of the artists I like is actually a group of artist who are called CLAMP. CLAMP is four women who found each other and decide to do books for people in Japan and other countries. They have a certain style that is bubbly and mystical. Their art has a simple sway of the ink pen, but a lot of detail to make each character one of a kind. The comic book series I am going to talk about is X/1999. The series is about two brothers who find out that their destinies are going to be difficult. Both brothers have to decide if they are going to destroy Earth or help Earth from each other. So the two brothers, Kamui and Fuma,  picks sides with other people, but finds out that their sister is also involved in the situation and has to be protected from her brother, Fuma.  X/1999 is suspenseful, on your edge, and blood everywhere comic. CLAMP shows their characters with long slender legs, long arms, and very tall. They have big eyes and flowing hair. But with the CLAMP girls, the design comes within the clothes each character wears in the book, and the storyline that makes each character at home in the story. I love the way that the artists also incorporates some of the characters in other comics. CLAMP has made me happy for years with their stories and the art of the comics. This comic shows improvement for what women can do for themselves as an artist. From the Comic book Confidential movie, the 1970’s was the time women could show what they could do as an artist. I think from that time and now the women of the comic book world have shown more detail in their work and made storylines more interesting to the reader. Women can show action, romance, cat people, fantasy, and gore without having to worry about what the people would have to say when a child reads one of their books. In this generation, the parents have to be the ones to see the age limit on a book to decide if the child can read it or not. Women and men as an artist can show off their skills and not have to worry about what people would say because after it is put on the shelves it is the parent’s responsibility.