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Graphic Failures: Ware and Burns - Coggle Diagram
Graphic Failures: Ware and Burns
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
used of a braided narrative to show intergenerational to put pressure on what we inherit; what trickles down; failure becomes a tool to think about these institutions (the family, etc)
Absence of some patriarchs starting with great grandfather (weird family tree in the "summary"; I feel like that family tree with the absence of foliage/(women?) dooms the tree to fail? Idk lol
how does this text frame intimacy: does this actually reaffirm the importance of the nuclear family by saying the lack of women makes intimacy spiral.
the ending moves towards potential positive outcomes; marginalizes feelings of Black women in service of centering white man-baby's positivity?
still eroticizes Amy and then filters it through male fantasy: the use of sequencing to set a tone
the final 4 pages: Tammy and cycles; color coding with red hair to invoke a cycle; ends on a heteronormative promise? There's also the recursive structure--maybe it will go right
comics medium with it's visual work fosters different structures of feeling, identifications, and emotions--there's something embodied and visceral here
comics are important for Corrigan's understanding of the human: Zoe in chat: " I felt like Jimmy was a fan of superheroes,... they never studied writing theory, they did read comics. That's why the story had to be inside a comic. It is Jimmy's own vehicle of understanding, insulated and different and childish to some people"
heteronormative fmaily feelings - skewed Norman Rockwell
Black Hole
70s slasher films and sexual culture
medical models of pleasure and the body
body horror, hallucinations/dreamscapes
vintage Archie and Veronica
Heteronormativity: one must be heterosexual; it is reliant on cis-normativity (male-man and female-woman) Adrienne Rich's Lesbian Existence and Compulsory Heterosexuality
straight is the moral goodness; sin and repentance is a big vibe; and you better wait till marriage
for compulsory heterosexuality to function, it often relies on shame
see Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex" for more on sex negativity
religious discourse informs this structure of being (Church, "Christian values",
Mainstream entertainment and advertising: dominant Hollywood, commericals for like rings and stuff, the family unity, oops all Disney; heteronormativity needs to work as invisibility
heterosexuality needs to look neutral, natural, and apolitical.
it is institutional--legal, social, economic, pop cultural, educational, historical, medical, scientific, reproductive
J. Halberstam
The Queer Art of Failure
rethink the relationship between failure and pleasure?
Maybe
Black Hole
dramatizes the ways failures opens up different/liberatory relationships to self/a gendered self (with Chris)
"Low theory": examples like
Little Miss Sunshine
; using failure and experimentation to learn--; low theory - -theory that can be applied across multiple disciplines--not hyper specific to 1 subject area
the low theory archive is kids stuff, Spongebob, etc