Pawee's Strip Log

Comic strip and comic book have two sides of pros and cons which can turn readers into the negative criticism or the positive reports. Comic strip and comic book are an expression of the society from a creator’s point of view and they published through many eyes. They are the humorous illustrations with ironic text lines to entertain the readers about the current society and sometimes to offend some readers. This is the most challenge for the creators to engage the religion and the society’s censorship in the science fiction comics and to see the reaction of the readers. In the contrast, William Gaines and Al Feldstein, they were thinking of their science fiction comics which were special and could reach the group of intelligent readers. They both met at William’s office and developed into friendship quickly because they had the same creative dreams to introduce their new concepts of science fiction as comic book series which could be said that it was deviant. Their comics were a little out of society norm. Weird Science and Weird Fantasy were their first comic book series and were a couple of 1950’s comics in science fiction that were published by EC (first known as Educational Comics, later as Entertaining Comics) as new as a reflection of social problem that needed to solve.



The ideas that these comic books would cause us social deviants, they are small when to comparing of what the impact for these book series that could help us better human beings. There was escapism available in science fiction comic books, such as Superman and Captain Marvel comics. These superheroes have their powerful strength that give them to take over the world but then they use their power for good reason to save the planet and would rather to be kind and act like a normal as a human. These are remarkable to the young readers because they wish they could have been with heroes or share the power with them. The science fiction titles were considered impressive to have entertainment and the ideas of blending in the treatment to cure society problem. According to society problem, science fiction comic books are also open to the readers’ eyes and see the possibility of a solution by the power of technology. That is what superheroes could symbolize the technology that people were waiting to pull them out of society problems at their previous age.



In this week’s Adam@Home, Adam can be a hero for social comic strip. It is similar to the hero of science fiction comic book series, like Superman. Unlike the previous hero whose people always believed to have the power, these days, the meaning of heroes do not have to be a super human who could be able to use his powerful to strength and save the world. Adam in this comic strip is just a usual human like us and he has no power. However, to some readers, he becomes a big hero to them. Adam inspires them to understand their situation of being work-at-home dad and live with it. This shows is the expert of how Brian is to create Adam who has a lot of problems in common same as the work-at-home readers. This is a key of Adam becomes attractive. The readers could be a dad who stays at home and feels lonely. They have the repetitive burden to feed children, clean the house, wash the clothes and they have to take this whole responsible everyday. But they do not have a chance to socialize with a lot of people. They are exhausted and they are eager of the new task. Light comes to them, Adam appears to give them the humorous ideas and useful entertainment on how to live with being a work-at-home dad. The readers find the same type of problems Adam has, they really like this character and respect him as their hero. Today, Adam could be a next generation of a mundane human but he is an incredible hero to some readers who look up to him.