My Own Character Description

My two main characters are a zombie and a man in a mask; which one should i write about?

I believe the character I'm going to explain in detail to you must be the man in the mask. Un-named and unusual in character. He wears a bare minimum of clothing, torn off and tattered. His face is unseen, covered by a full-faced mask wrapped around his whole entire head. The mask has big eye-holes, shady, dark, they seem like they go on forever. The mask is sewn with "x-shaped" twine cascading down the front of his face. The mouth piece is that of one on a gas mask. Two funneled screens, leaving behind a very scratched out voice. Two tubes, one his direct left and right side of his head, loop down and connect to his shoulders, this tubes connect to his brain, feeding his body with the information processing in his mind. His body bare, with almost burns scattered throughout, infected burns, pulsating and an odd assortment of sick-like colors. His body is bruised and skinny, lanky in shape, but medium-sized in height. There's a slight gimp to his walk, and over-all appearance. At one glance; you see a character, worn and old, tattered and torn, you see a past of nothing but pain and misfortune. You see a man once grand beyond his years, that soon came across a horrible suffering. I guess you could name him Hope.

The Sandman - Character Description

The man character of this book is the Sandman, and I believe he is the best character to decribe, because he has the most going on with him. First of all he is shown, in a slightly grotesque mask, bug-like almost, with tubes laying from his face. He's in a long cape, giving his figure a more "Egore," slash muscled look. Then when he is ripped away of his possesions [which you soon find out holds most of his power] and unwillingly imprisoned, the sandman is revealed as a dark, mysterious, grungy man. Lanky, pale, and bone-thin tall. His hair is wirey, astrayed all over his face. This shows the reader, that the sandman, holds alot of secrets, danger, and the sense that he knows something no one else knows.

The Sandman; Preludes & Nocturnes - Same Kieth, Minke Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III

In my graphic novel, The Sandman, an epic story is unfolded on the capture of the sandman, from an attempt went wrong to capture "death" himself.  As the story unfolds, the sandman is forced to go on a journey to retrieve his possessions and all in all his power. Through random characters met in the story, the sandman himself shows human-like characteristics while showing the wickedness of the world around him; the greed, power hungry, drug induced, and humiliating characters and scenarios. 

The Sandman, following the rule of thirds, shows fast actions slides of movement, memory, and a curious plot. Even though some pages show a different layout there is usually one main focus to the page, or one main description [movement or conversation], to focus in on.  I believe the pattern is formed to show the fast paced motive behind the story, and the parts where there is  less of a story occurring, it makes your eyes slow down and refocus on the story and what has been learned already. When reading the novel so far, i believe the way i read it is more fast paced, more quick and sudden  for the basic ideas to form in my head. The colors and characters create the plot and emotions, while the conversation between the characters, within the characters, or simple things about the characters create the story. I'm drawn into the different formation of the pages, vibrant color, and slightly crude and unusual story.

The drawing style behind The Sandman, is slightly dark and sketchy. There's realistic characteristics behind the illustrations but there's sketchiness on the edges and quick pictures of the characters and scenes. It shows the vast differences behind the characters. For example the sandman himself, his hair has a very stringy, he wears all black, and has hollow like eyes; it shows the mysterious tendency behind the character. Then you have the lady who gets to messed up on sleeping powder, bed sore infested, cracked out, realistic, and pathetic, you get the sense of misfortune, sympathy in concerns to her past, and over all idiocy. When the plot gets more intense, the characters and scenes get darker. When the plot gets happier, the colors turn to more bright colors, happy features, and characters but as soon as something bad happens, the characters become more sarcastic, drearier looking, and sometimes nude. 

From this graphic novel, i can manipulate the layout, by making the formation slightly more interesting and blocked out and spaced out to create an emotion. I can use colors to show the vast differences between the many emotions of the characters and scenes. I can also create the realistic conversational bubbles; of irony and sarcasm. And that... is what i got out of this novel.

Then, Now, and Future

Bronze Age: Otherwise known as the mainstream American comic books, sprouting up around the 1970's through mid-1980's. This era of comic books gave off bright colored scenes and characters with a deeper more provocative issues. An example of these issues that I'm talking about include.. Spiderman and his drug issues.. Minority groups shown in comics just like X-Men.. Heroin addictions in a hero's sidekick shown in Green Lantern/Green Arrow.  Common real life issues like, racism, segregation, sexism showed through in a almost apparent yet "hidden" way. The one thing about this time period, was that superheros were no longer just white males. Women, African Americans, and Wolverines (etc.) started becoming main characters in the comics. The Bronze age also showed characters in more realistic perspective, they weren't only bugged eyed little bunnies or cats, with the shiny almost tear drop eyes, but they began looking like real characters, real characteristics, real features, and even more realistic emotions

Silver Age: Lasting from the 1950's to late 1960's, producing an artistic advancement in a comic book's look. Before this time,

 superheros were in a decline, and this period revived them

 for who they once were. A Major commercial peak in the comic book industry was also created. The once god-like and magical ideas were now replaced by Science fiction and aliens. The twist about this era though, is that most of the main characters had flaws and were self-doubting. The Silver Age also brought upon comics direction towards kids, like the ever famous comic Archie. This era was believed to end because of the rise of price of the comic books, and some even say it ended because changes in popular comics, [ex: Green Lantern series] plot lines and characters.

Modern Age: Beginning in the 1980's and continuing until present day, The Modern Age of comic books gave the characters darker and more physhologically complex attitudes and characteristics.  This was a time when independent comics flourished and publishing houses became more commercialized. This era not only has one main title, it has quite the abundance. From the title "Dark Age of Comic Books," due to the influence of grim tales to the title "Diamond Age," due to the diversity found in the mediums. Alas one of the other titles was "The Iron Age," due to the Greek mythology ranking. [ex: Gold, Silver, and Bronze] This era brought upon the anti-hero, the characters that despite the they do help out the good people, they have a dark side, a mysterious side, an almost angry side. 

The Golden Age: The beginning of modern day comics first publications, starting around the 1930's and going til the late 1940's. This is the era the superhero was created and defined. It created a new fresh look at mainstream art, and was a signifigant contribution to the pop culture. An example that everyone would know that sprouted up around this time was none the less "SUPERMAN."

Why Ello!

I stole a ring from the flying horses.