Social Anxiety In Murder, Morphine And Me
Social anxiety is a type of anxiety that involves the fear of being judged by others. It causes the interaction of people in the social context to be minimal. There is a certain discomfort that is experienced with people of such a disorder. Some cartoons and comics have been created with the aim of responding and reflecting to social anxiety. Therefore, the essay examines the three comic works that are phenomenon of social anxiety.
Murder, Morphine and Me was written by Jack Cole, which can be described as a crime story. The event occurs when a young woman with vision and ambitions being seduced by a drug dealer. She is introduced to the drug business without knowing what mess she has got herself into. According to Scott McCloud, “Duo-specific panels in which both words and pictures send essentially the same message.” (McCloud 153). Thus, the words and pictures in this panel are acting like a cautionary tale to …show more content…
He created this story at the golden age of newspaper comics. Most of the writers at this time were masters of great work. Harvey Kurtzman goes further to explain that a person’s system begins with the statement he or she has to make. What he does is visual, timing, rhythm, sequence, creating movement and arranging panels. At the end, we end up wondering the impact Kurtzman could have IF he had more time at MAD. The last panel he stated “ It was only a stray mortar shell! Could have landed anywhere! If only that shell splinter had gone five more inches to the right….” (Kurtzman). Correspondingly, Scott McCloud also mentions, “because of its independence from our evolution-bred instincts, art is the way we assert our identities as individuals and break out of the narrow roles nature cast us in.” (McCloud 166). Thus, the MAD has inspired a series of satirical and clinical humor and it was creating a response of social anxiety that has built stories and transformed comic
Murder, Morphine and Me was written by Jack Cole, which can be described as a crime story. The event occurs when a young woman with vision and ambitions being seduced by a drug dealer. She is introduced to the drug business without knowing what mess she has got herself into. According to Scott McCloud, “Duo-specific panels in which both words and pictures send essentially the same message.” (McCloud 153). Thus, the words and pictures in this panel are acting like a cautionary tale to …show more content…
He created this story at the golden age of newspaper comics. Most of the writers at this time were masters of great work. Harvey Kurtzman goes further to explain that a person’s system begins with the statement he or she has to make. What he does is visual, timing, rhythm, sequence, creating movement and arranging panels. At the end, we end up wondering the impact Kurtzman could have IF he had more time at MAD. The last panel he stated “ It was only a stray mortar shell! Could have landed anywhere! If only that shell splinter had gone five more inches to the right….” (Kurtzman). Correspondingly, Scott McCloud also mentions, “because of its independence from our evolution-bred instincts, art is the way we assert our identities as individuals and break out of the narrow roles nature cast us in.” (McCloud 166). Thus, the MAD has inspired a series of satirical and clinical humor and it was creating a response of social anxiety that has built stories and transformed comic