Pawee's Strip Log

In April 9th to April 15th, “Adam at Home” comic strip presents dad Adam’s daily schedules of what he is doing when he does not work. Dad Adam is reading a newspaper with his wife and the children are eating their breakfast in the morning. Next strip, Dad Adam drives his kids to school then he comes back to order the coffee for his work at home. He might hear some humors, gossips, or news of what is going on around him while he is waiting on the line for his order, he hears a chit-chat between a seller and customer that the trend of black coffee is not that popular today. During the weekend, they play hide and seek in the house. They just have a normal life like the others of American family.

Regarding to Krazy Kat as American Dada Art, Dada is a name of a group that appeared after World War I. Dada movement was at its height at that time.
Dada artists were studying an American popular culture, especially the motion pictures, newspaper, and magazines advertisement, which they were considered as carriers of tradition. Krazy Kat by George Herriman was a cartoon that began to break the folk way of America art and was passed around the states until it was becoming very popular as well-known as example of “pure American Dada humor.” For example, the animals can act, walk and talk like human and this was Herriman’s cartoon which guided the other cartoonists to create many live characters of animals later.

This could be big possible that Dada art influence Adam@Home comic strip from generation to the next generation to be a modern American Dada art. Brian Basset, the cartoonist of Adam @ Home possibly has Dada art skills inside of his heart. It seemed he studied American popular culture as well and considered to use his study, which applies his comic strip to be more intellectual attitude, a spiritual conviction, and life style. For example, he creates dad Adam playing hide and seek as a game between dad and kids because he might see this game can be a choice to get relatives closer and this is very important to today’s American society since most parents have work to concentrate and cannot spend much time with their children. It appears the lack of attentions that parents can give to their children in today. This becomes very concern in the future that these children will grow and abandon their parents to become loneliness. This is what the cartoonist might be concerned and wanted us to understand his art. He possibly offers us to change our thought of old tradition of industry manual labor to work at home if it would be a better choice for the parents who do care about their kids. Adam@Home is the image in some people’s hope that will be accepted the broken folkway of society.

Besides, Brian’s free of use English language is similar to Herriman’s which creates his character to become an effective hilarious comic but sometimes the language in the dialogue could be unstable and leaded to misunderstanding rather than effective conversation. This is what Herriman showed us pre-cautious to use the free language.

He knew there was a difference between what we say and what we mean in the comic strip. The comic strip can disorient the viewers and turn them to get the wrong idea. This caution becomes aware to many cartoonists and as Brian’s comic strip shows us a hilarious today and we laugh with his art because we do not misread his strip. He knows this tradition of using proper language in today’s comic strip.

Although Mr. Herriman has created his comic strip Krazy Kat to be well-known to every readers at his time during WWI, and when he reaches a top of achievement in art, which no one else has approached. Similarly, Brian’s hard work on his comic strip Adam at Home is being published to many readers and he is giving the thoughts of working at home can profit parents who have kids or people with cripple. He could become a successful cartoonist in the future.