WP2 first draft

This comic is a multi paneled comic which depicts two penguins and a fabricated character called a puffle. This comic derives from an internet game site called club peguin, which depicts many similar comics like this one. I choose this comic because I was pulled in by its interesting characters and cartoon looking design. Then looking into this comic and reading through its bubble captions I realized the simple yet very funny humor in the comic. This humor is what builds the authors rhetorical appeal along with his argument. This humor instilled in the comic creates an emotion which then gives the comic an overall sense of pathos. Emotion is a key element that is linked to pathos. The comic creates this pathos in many ways, the essentials whould be its characters, its text, and its transitions from slide to slide. It is strongly associated with art and storytelling where it has ancient roots." (wiki). All these elements build to set up the rhetorical appeal and argument the author of the comic wanted. What seems to be the authors main argument is that teaching a pet new tricks is not always that easy. Pets like the one depicted above do not understand the meaning of sitting therfore the pet above like most will not obey the command unless reinforced by something like a treat ect... To understand this fully, one must not look at this comic as a funny cartoon but, a story with a purpose which is the difficulties of having pets.

Most people now of days if told to look at this comic along with its characters would do so and not think of it as odd. This comic is odd though, there are two penguins dressed as humans and a unrealistic creature. The penguins dressed as humans, that speak like humans represents Anthropomorphis which is, "the attribution of human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts"(Wiki). This is a common occurence in comics and cartoons. This is making it almost a norm of society to not think of animals with human characteristics as odd, we are surrounded by it everyday. The author already excpects this to be a norm and for you to bypass that it is actually wierd in retrospect. As kids with t.v stations such as cartoon network and childrens story books they also see it as a norm. This anthropomorphism is also what draws the audience in and gives the comic its humor, this is because human like animals are supposed to be funny, an example being the looney toons.

Looking into these characters more one would notice an abstraction or distortion of the animal characters in this comic. The abstractions being in their color, eyes and shape; the penguins are distorted from their real life look. Comic artist and cartoonist do this normally to add to the humor of the comic, again creating pathos from which to draw their audience in. The reason their is humor in these abstractions is the fact that it is unusual to see, and people tend to laugh at things that are not the way their suposed to be. Then looking into the fabricated character called a puffle you ask what is its purpose in this comic? Its purpose is being the center of the humor in this comic strip. The creature is the punch line of the whole comic. Everything in this comic is understood except for this strange thing, it does not move and it does not speak. The penguin tells it to sit, but it does not move then the penguins question if it is already sitting and neither know the answer. Both the characters in the comic and the audience of the comic do not know if this thing is sitting or not. This character audience connection again ties into the pathos of this comic. Here the pathos comes from the emotion of confusion, we are both confused as to what this thing is doing.

This comic puts alot of emphasis on its text, without the text this comic would have no humor or argument. The typography in this comic sets the feeling of the comic which is confusion, the texts also follows the penguins facial expressions. The author decided to use the bubble to hold the text and point to the penguin that is speaking. The author did this to not mislead the audience about which character is speaking. Then you look at the exclimation points,which is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume, and often marks the end of a sentence. "Sit Fluffy sit!!" These exclamations which create feeling or emotion make pathos in the text. All of the text in this comic is in capitol letters which makes the text seem more important and easier to read.

There is then the slide transitions in this comic, these transitions help make the authors argument. There is generally little change from slide to slide but the penguins faces change along with the text. This comic would not work the same if it was a single panneled comic, there would be to much to infer, and not enough room for the text. The rhetoric appeal also comes from the transitions, this is because the puffle does not move from slide to slide. This is where the humor comes from because it is uncertain if the puffle is already sitting or not, which creates the humor. Without the transitions the author would not of been able to show the penguins frustrations, and the pets lack of knowing what is being asked of it. In a single framed comic the emotion of this process would not be easily seen.

It is easy to assume this comics overall purpose is to be funny and have humor. It is common for many comics to be humorus, there are many key signs that in this one that prove it to be. The author of this comic used thing such as character abstration, transition, and tapography to make his rhetorical appeal clear. The rhetorical appeal that comes out can be pointed out as pathos, this pathos is shown and proven through the comic. There are many things to look at when reading a comic that can be looked over, if one just looks a little deeper they can better understand the comics true meaning. These are the questions that the author wants you to ask yourself when reading this comic.

WP2 Rough Draft #2

This comic is a multi paneled comic which depicts two penguins and a fabricated character called a puffle. This comic derives from an internet game site called club peguin, which depicts many similar comics like this one. I choose this comic because I was pulled in by its interesting characters and cartoon looking design. Then looking into this comic and reading through its bubble captions I realized the simple yet very funny humor in the comic. This humor is what builds the authors rhetorical appeal along with his argument. This humor instilled in the comic creates an emotion which then gives the comic an overall sense of pathos. Emotion is a key element that is linked to pathos. The comic creates this pathos in many ways, the essentials whould be its characters, its text, and its transitions from slide to slide. This comic also feautures a unique technique called anthroporphism which features animals with human characteristics. Anthropomorphism has a long history in art "It is strongly associated with art and storytelling where it has ancient roots." (wiki). All these elements build to set up the rhetorical appeal and argument the author of the comic wanted. What seems to be the authors main argument is that teaching a pet new tricks is not always that easy. Pets like the one depicted above do not understand the meaning of sitting therfore the pet above like most will not obey the command unless reinforced by something like a treat ect... To understand this fully, one must not look at this comic as a funny cartoon but, a story with a purpose which is the difficulties of having pets.
Most people now of days if told to look at this comic along with its characters would do so and not think of it as odd. This comic is odd though, there are two penguins dressed as humans and a unrealistic creature. The penguins dressed as humans, that speak like humans represents Anthropomorphis which is, "the attribution of human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts"(Wiki). This is a common occurence in comics and cartoons. This is making it almost a norm of society to not think of animals with human characteristics as odd, we are surrounded by it everyday. The author wants you to ask the question are these penguins going to teach this pet a trick, not wow are those penguins really dressed like people. The author already excpects this to be a norm and for you to bypass that it is actually wierd in retrospect. As kids with t.v stations such as cartoon network and childrens story books they also see it as a norm. This anthropomorphism is also what draws the audience in and gives the comic its humor, this is because human like animals are supposed to be funny, an example being the looney toons. People like this type of animal disfigurment because it turns the world backwards making animals act like people, which is interesting to most. So just seeing this comics characters alone a person now of days through this norm would guess this comic to be funny, therfore setting up its audience base.

Looking into these characters more one would notice an abstraction or distortion of the animal characters in this comic. The abstractions being in their color, eyes and shape; the penguins are distorted from their real life look. Comic artist and cartoonist do this normally to add to the humor of the comic, again creating pathos from which to draw their audience in. The reason their is humor in these abstractions is the fact that it is unusual to see, and people tend to laugh at things that are not the way their suposed to be. Then looking into the fabricated character called a puffle you ask what is its purpose in this comic? Its purpose is being the center of the humor in this comic strip. The creature is the punch line of the whole comic. Everything in this comic is understood except for this strange thing, it does not move and it does not speak. The penguin tells it to sit, but it does not move then the penguins question if it is already sitting and neither know the answer. The pet is also the main factor in the argument, that a pet cannot comprehend what a person is saying because it has no means in which to understand what is being said.

Both the characters in the comic and the audience of the comic do not know if this thing is sitting or not. This character audience connection again ties into the pathos of this comic. Here the pathos comes from the emotion of confusion, we are both confused as to what this thing is doing. We do not even know if this thing has apendages in which to sit with if it wanted to.

This comic puts alot of emphasis on its text, without the text this comic would have no humor or argument. The typography in this comic sets the feeling of the comic which is confusion, the texts also follows the penguins facial expressions. The author decided to use the bubble to hold the text and point to the penguin that is speaking. The author did this to not mislead the audience about which character is speaking. Then you look at the exclimation points,which is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume, and often marks the end of a sentence. "Sit Fluffy sit!!" These exclamations which create feeling or emotion make pathos in the text. All of the text in this comic is in capitol letters which makes the text seem more important and easier to read.

There is then the slide transitions in this comic, these transitions help make the authors argument. There is generally little change from slide to slide but the penguins faces change along with the text. This comic would not work the same if it was a single panneled comic, there would be to much to infer, and not enough room for the text. The rhetoric appeal also comes from the transitions, this is because the puffle does not move from slide to slide. This is where the humor comes from because it is uncertain if the puffle is already sitting or not, which creates the humor. The argument of the difficulties in teaching pets new tricks is seen from these transitions. Without the transitions the author would not of been able to show the penguins frustrations, and the pets lack of knowing what is being asked of it. In a single framed comic the emotion of this process would not be easily seen.

It is easy to assume this comics overall purpose is to be funny and have humor. It is common for many comics to be humorus, there are many key signs that in this one that prove it to be. The author of this comic used thing such as character abstration, transition, and tapography to make his rhetorical appeal clear. The rhetorical appeal that comes out can be pointed out as pathos, this pathos is shown and proven through the comic. There are many things to look at when reading a comic that can be looked over, if one just looks a little deeper they can better understand the comics true meaning. The author wants you to ask yourself is it easy to teach a pet new tricks? Can a pet truley comprehend what someone is saying to it? These are the questions that the author wants you to ask yourself when reading this comic.