http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/popculture/all/01133/facts.75_years_of_marvel_comics_from_the_golden_age_to_the_silver_screen.htm

This image depicts the art style that I tried to incorporate in my comic which reflects the Golden Age art style.

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Image from the Silver Age of comics which depicts the goofiness and silliness depicted in comics.

Jones, Gerard. Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

"The Bronze Age of Comic Books / Useful Notes - TV Tropes." The Bronze Age of Comic Books / Useful Notes - TV Tropes. N.p., Web. 25 Nov. 2015.

This is just an article that speak of the historical context of comic books. It clearly explains how genre conventions changed from the Golden Age to the Silver age to the Bronze Age, and finally to modern times. During the Golden Age, comics appeared to be lively, simple and direct to the point. After that, the Silver Age made comics silly and goofy and westernized themes. Then the Bronze Age of comic books gets darker and relates themes to real world problems. The Bronze Age was extremely useful and inspiring for my comic because by using satire, I can send a message of self- identity to modern teenagers.

                Duncan, Randy, and Matthew J. Smith. The Power of Comics: History, Form, and Culture. New York: Continuum, 2009. Print.

This book defines how comic books are a medium that serve economic commodities and art forms. It also explains hoe comic books tend to have a cultural reference that serve many audiences with many purposes. The book also takes you to the process which comic books undergo in order be delivered to the readers. This source is helpful because it assures me that comic books can have a purpose and an audience

                "Making Sense of Superheroes: Awareness of Superhero Genre Conventions around the World." It’s Playing Just with Research. N.p., 12 Mar. 2014. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

Carrie Lynn D. Reinhard is a an assistant professor with a Ph. D. on communications from the Ohio State University and she focus on research pertaining reception studies, particularly among minority groups. Her research document helped me to become aware of some of the conventions usually found in comic books. By doing so, I was able to apply some of this to my Guardian of the Kitchen to demonstrate my understanding for this conventions. Some conventions were things like female superheroes and her explanation for how this has had effects of society. She also asked groups of people from various backgrounds what characteristic made a superhero. The most common responses had to do with qualities that we human possess like moral codes.

                Wright, Bradford W. Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001. Print.               

Bradford Wright is a professor in the department of behavioral and social sciences at Valley Imperial College in California. This book demonstrates how, just like fairy tales, the creators were extremely influenced by the time era and how the emergence of superhero comic books flourished to life. For instance the acts of violence in comic books were influenced by early 20^th century events. These early forms of comic books also depicted stereotypes, such as the male being the hero and the female the conflicted one. Also the 1930’s and the depression era, led to an increase in percentage of teenagers in high school as they became more “independent” and “irreverent.” This behaviors in teenagers and children were then redirected by comic book creators, thus making them the primary audience.

http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/marvel-comics/images/18652583/title/spiderman-comics-fanart

Ashley Malone is a 25 year old art institute alumni with a Bachelor’s in Media Art and Animation. This comic book strip helps me inspire my drawing style. It’s Obvious that Malone is using classical marvel characters and depicting them in an “adorable” way to make a solid connection her characters and the humor. This also allows me to examine the ways that she uses images to portray sarcasm and how she uses dialogue to express wit and delineate her message.

Claremont, Chris, and John Byrne. "X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga." New York: Marvel Comics, 1980. Print

Chris Claremont and John Byrne are comic book writers and novelists who often times are credited for creating and developing strong female characters within the pool of marvel superheroes. I choose the X-men as a mode for my RIP project because when you get into the story line and think critically about the entire premise of being outcasts of society you begin to correlate the comic book with the time period. The X-men are a group of individuals who are gifted with superpowers due to a mutation in their DNA. This lead for all “normal” humans to look down upon this group of individuals and cast them away. The x-men series started in the 1960’s, a time when African American were fighting for their civil rights and thus Claremont and Byrne created a parallel universe where the x-men were analogous to African American while the Government tried to deny their rights as human beings. This Comic book serves as a basis of how pure forms of entertainment can transcend entertainment itself and make a stronger political opinion. In the same way, I will be using stereotypes found in classical fairy tales to make a satirical claim about female stereotypes today.

Tatar, Maria. The Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. Print.

Maria Tatar is an American academic whose expertise lies in children's literature, German literature, and folklore. Used her book to reference my chosen fairy tale: Cinderella by the brothers Grimm. I used this tale to stress how authors incorporate ideas that correspond to their times such as sexism and the woman role in society.

Tatar, Maria. The Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. 353-64. Print.

Donald Haase is Professor of German and Senior Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In his article, Haase attempts to investigate the ownership of fairy tales. In his search he explains how fairy tales belong to everyone because we all adapt them to make them fit our own needs. He also claims that authors do take ownership because they instill in fairy tales cultural ideals that distinguishes them as theirs. I choose this source because it helped support my claim that the Grimms had to incorporate values that were relevant to their culture and times.

Tatar, Maria. The Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. 364-73. Print.

Maria Tatar is an American academic whose expertise lies in children's literature, German literature, and folklore. I used her article “Sex and Violence” to reiterate to the fact that the brothers Grimm had to change from one specific audience to another. This will help me in the RIP because I will be able to examine the sexist innuendoes that were incorporated into their fairy tales due to the influence of their times and how females were defined. 

Walker, Stephen, and Len Barton. Gender, Class & Education. Barcombe, Lewes, Sussex: Falmer, 1983. Print.

Jean Anyon, was an American critical thinker and researcher in education, a professor in the Doctoral Program in Urban Education at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, and a civil rights and social activist. In her Article Intersections of Gender and Class: Accommodation and Resistance by Working-Class and Affluent Females to Contradictory Sex Role Ideologies, Anyon describes the role of the gender in our society and she claims that even thou our society has changed, women are still confronted by stereotypes. I chose her article because it helped me describe why the Grimm’s fairy tales are relevant to us today in that we still share common ideas such as sexism. This stereotypes will be still included in my RIP, but the difference is that I will be targeting them for a sarcastic effect.