Comic Unit 33

Comic Book Unit 33

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	Settings	Narrative	Iconography	Themes	Characters
Detective	City, Bedroom, Dark Alleyway, Club, School	Following the suspect. Called up to the missing boys house.	Blueprints, Following, Smoking, Head Lamp, Tied to a chair,  Escaping captive, Desperate parents, Detective car	Mystery Crime Thriller	Detective, Victim, Villain, Worried Parents, Mrs and Mr Dimbeau
Sci-Fi	Night Club, City	Robots in a night club while the detective sits.	Robots, Night clubs blue prints ,	Humans turning into robots	Robots are some of the characters in the first page of Robot Love.
Horror	Basement, City, alleyway	The detective is following	Dark room, Escaping captive, Night, Evil Villain	Robots taking over	Evil Villain,  Mr Borbah, Mrs and Mr Dimbeau

Content/ Style; 

There is a few comparisons with Robot love and the illustration of Gould's visual and narrative influence on Burn's work such as the use of only black drawings. As you can see with both images there is no colour implemented in it there all black and white images. Also in both comics the visual of very dark blacks for shading is very common throughout both comics, for this reason I think that Charles Burns picked this up from Gould's visual work in Robot Love. 

Some of the Narrative work from Gould's work in Robot Love you can see has transferred into Charles Burns work in the genre of the comic. It is a detective genre like Robot Love that has stereotypical scenes from detective films such as the scene where the detective is looking for a victim. This is where the audience first meets the main character of the comic. At the end of both comics it is left at almost a unfinished end I think Burn got this from Gould's work in Robot Love as in the comic it is finished on a suspenseful end.    

  

Meaning; 

In Big Baby Burns explores dark comedy instead of your stereotypical horror in 'Big Baby'. He uses this dark comedy to discover different aspects of peoples life's. In 'Robot Love' Burns is replicated doing a very similar aspect. By Burns using black and white throughout all of his Robot Love comic emphasises the darkness even more when there is scenes with dark settings such as alleyways. Burns villains in both Robot Love and Big Baby are different to your stereotypical evil villain. One is a robot and the other is a monster. Although in Big Baby we are left guessing who the villain truly is as we do not see his face. This links back the the darkness of Burns comics as it leaves the audience wondering what this thing actually is.


Target Audience;
Charles Burns aims to reach out to people who like underground comics. What is mean by this is the fact that the comic isn't a stereotypical plot of a super hero it has a twist to it and unpredictability. He wants to change the stereotype of comics to something different make them more like a graphic book than a comic book.

Characters;
The character El Borba first came around in 1982 in the now comic book classic Robot Love by Charles Burns. Burns loves wrestling and that was how his famous comic book character was produced. El Borba was later developed when Burns found out about Mexican wrestling. He made El Borba look like a superhero as in Burnses eyes this was the start of a brilliant comic.

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