Lit Comics # 5 Response

Both Thompson and Eisner’s characters faces morph and change when they are experiencing different emotions. Eisner’s characters faces morph into creepy looking menaces when they are up to dastardly plans (like when they will cover up murder or attempt to rape a woman) and Thompson’s main character in Blankets’ face, even though a young boy, twisted into rage when a bully talked badly about his little brother. Eisner seems to lean heavily on stereotypes to convey emotions and personalities; the black people are all mischievous looking, with flat noses, big lips and teeth, and usually a sneaky look in their eye. The Italians are almost always aligned with the Mafia, comically fat or skinny, with an equally comical and over the top “Italian accent”. Both artists use effects, such as the shapes and parts of one scene to transition or bleed into the next, which works well on paper, but would seem strange if used in a movie.