Pawee's Strip Log

This week, in Inge’s book page 131-144, he speaks of how the image and text occurred to work together and were powerful in technology of making a publish the comic book in the end of the era of American Industrial Revolution. There were the succeed images of stories should be published, the product of color press should be invented, the desire of hero should be found, then the comic book would bring them together in the image in writing through the changes of technology and traditions in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century. It was technological development of the illustration publishing that brought the pictures and words to begin making the book as a fiction series. As many comic books and texts were published since the past of the history, the artists and the writers were aware that the drawing and the writing have commons in the communication between the readers and the authors. This effective argument was from a master artist Leonardo da Vinci’s idea who said that it was a necessary to draw and described in order to the art become more attractive and effective. The comic books, therefore are growing faster as a form of development with the full images and understandable words.


In this week April 16 to April 22, the cartoonist combines the images and the words to describe his characters in comic strip. As Adam works at home everyday, he knows his duty, and he has to manage the time so he can complete his duty. He has to clean the house and do the wash before his wife comes back home. Sometimes, Adam has sarcastic idea such a terrible wish. For example, in April 19, Adam cleans the house and vacuums the floor. Also, Adam’s big challenge is to take care of his 3 children. Perhaps, some parents have their children more than 3. They do not give their dad an easy time during their childhood. This negative effect can help parents to balance the numbers of income and kids early to prepare their future before they have kids. If the parents plan to have kids more than 2, they should be aware of the major key that they have to push the stress away and learn to be patient with their kids. The cartoonist does not show us only what Adam does indoor at home but also he wants Adam to represent the men at home who go outdoor to entertain themselves.


Each daily comic strip of Adam at Home has such a vivid images and easy-going text to read. It is modern of art that how the artist uses a frame or more in strip and a few dialogues to communicate with the readers of seeing the movement in the society. Also, it shows us that the artist has a lot of full mature thoughts as he is an expert father. Even though the strip shows the images and the dialogues, it hides a lot of description and can lead us to misread the artist’s concept. It is the image that the artist can draw it unrealistic. It is the expression of the artist how he sees the society and he may want to see how the society reacts to his modern art. For example, the artist shares his feeling how he thinks of cleaning the house. As the following picture, we may interpret his meaning of ‘clean’ that he wants to clean the whole of messy house and leave nothing but the blank strip. He may try to tell us his wish that sometimes, he wants to forget everything at the moment. He got a stress from his responsibility as many as he owns his roles to play in the busy society; for example, at the same time he is a husband, he is a good dad to his children, or he is a social person to the people at the public, and he is a friend with some shop sellers. He leaves many meanings of the story with us behind these images and if without the text lines, perhaps we may be lost interest in his comic strip. The text lines in conversation are the major role in the modern comic. It has the purpose to make the story understandable and affective for the readers.