Beauty or Ugly?

I actually never intended for most of my comics to be funny, but Professor Leeper just has some of the best funny quotes out there that I have to use them ^_^ So we'll see how that goes. Also, there's some weird black and white/color action going on in this one. Kinda like Pleasantville, maybe?

 

Actually, though, one of the reasons I used this quote was because of the blog post Prof Leeper is quoting. About the 'ugly things in life'. It really made me think. Just because something is ;ugly' in our life, is it really ugly? Yeah, I know that sounded confusing, but I can't think of another way to phrase it. Basically, what constitutes its ugliness? I know the films we watched Tuesday were full of things people would consider 'the ugly things in life', but I thought they were beautiful. Maybe not because of what they were, but because of how they were shown.

 

Today we talked about story/film as images, which was really reassuring, because almost all of my story ideas start with a single image, or a few different ones. I build off of that, letting things come to me, but they start real simple. But do these images have to be 'beautiful', or can they be 'ugly'? I think they can be ugly. Osamu Tezuka, the father of modern anime and manga, said this "the potential of manga was more than getting a laugh; using themes of tears and sorrow, anger and hatred, I made stories that didn’t always have happy endings." I believe beauty is not equal to happiness. The 'ugly' things can be just as beautiful, like the bittersweet endings of the puppet video we watched, and of course 'The Fridge'.

But people don't really think like that anymore, it seems.