Graphic Novel

                Upon reading the graphic novels Contract with God by Eisner and Doot Doot Garden I realized that they have the similarity of talking about heavy subject matter. Such as depression, friendship and how to deal with loss of someone else.

                With a Contract with God, taking place in mainly the same place but different time periods. Going into heavy cultural references. Mainly telling stories of people good or bad and their life. Eisner shows a great sense of detail to dialogue and how he draws his character and environments. Showing subtle traits or clothing on characters to say more about them then what we know from their actions. One major piece of small detail that stood out was a naked woman laying with a man but with a cross over her chest. This shows into how people really have said contract with God. Also Mr. Scuggs the super and his lust going too far, getting himself killed. But the book has a great way of showing karma so even though the girl looks happy at the end to steal the money and not get caught, I have a dreadful feeling she will get her payment in due time.

                Doot Doot Garden has a more light hearted tone over all but its blatant way of showing things considered vulgar? Gives the whole comic a mixed feeling for me. But the stories are genuine all the same. One being about a captain and one of his loyal die hard shipmates. When his shipmate stayed with the captain’s body despite thinking he was dead and sharing stories with him like you would do at a funeral was very heart warming. Besides the goofy style of the characters he was genuinely dealing with loss of a friend. Also the topic on mental depression, when Keiron and Gena talked to the old woman who said she was hungry to die despite Keiron giving her compliments. Showing that not all compliments will genuinely cheer someone up.