Week 6: Underground Comics

Oh man, talk about letting it all hang open. I read in class a particularly raunchy retake on The Tortoise and Hare, where both animals are drunkard, angry characters who have a thing for a little bunny with swag. The language is much more adult, and though the style is still very childlike and there's cameos of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, the tone is so much more mature. On a less scandalous note, I read another comic in class that involved very short stories with very simplistic drawings. What made me interested was that it was blatantly labeled as "adult content", and I was expecting something completely different from what I got: some very intellectual humor for adults, not necessarily adult. The only thing to properly warrant that warning was the occasional f-word thrown in for clear dramatic effect. I did chuckle a few times, and I was pleasantly surprised by the contents. It's funny how these two different comics are two very opposite extremes of the same genre.