The “comics medium” includes newspaper comic strips such as Dennis the Menace and comic books such as Spider-Man. Scholars around the world agree that comics are a uniquely American art form.
The first commercially successful comic strip was Hogan’s Alley, a comic strip from the 1890s. Hogan’s Alley featured the Yellow Kid, the world’s first popular cartoon character. This strip and its character marked the beginning of comics and was American in every respect. Set in a low-income neighborhood in New York City, Hogan’s Alley dealt with the lives of ordinary Americans. It was written and drawn by American cartoonist R.F. Outcault. Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, two famous and influential American publishers, printed the comic strip in their newspapers.
The first popular comic book in the world was also American. Action Comics, a series that is still in print today, was initially released in 1938. It featured Superman, the world’s first superhero. Like Hogan’s Alley, Superman was American-created.
Americans invented comic strips, and Americans have exported their unique art form to the rest of the world. Japanese comics, called manga, were inspired by the comics that Americans brought to Japan after World War II. Popular European comics series such as Smurfs and Asterix are influenced by Disney comic books. Today, American-created Disney comic characters are more popular in Europe than ever.
The comics medium started in America. While it has spread around the world, even comics that aren’t created by Americans have an undeniable American influence. This is why so many art and literature scholars recognize the comic strip as a truly American art form.
Summarize the main points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge the specific points made in the reading passage. You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. Your response will be judged on the basis of the quality of your writing and how well your response presents the points in the lecture and their relationship to the reading passage.
The text propose the idea that comic is a uniquely art form from America. The passage stated that the first commercially successful comic book is Hogan’s Alley. Written by Outhaul, the comic is about the low-income neighborhood in the New York City. Additionally, the passage claims that the first popular comic book is Action Comic, which is the story that introduced the Superman for the first time. The text also believe that Japanese Manga is hugely influenced by American comics that brought to Japan after world war two, furthermore, the European famous cartoon such as Asterix and Smurfs heavily believe heavily influenced by Disney cartoon. It is show by the similarity of the character. These ideas are very famous around the scholar. In the other hand, the lecturer refutes this claim with several explanations that I would like to elaborate in the next paragraph.
First, the Hogan’s Alley is not the first successful comic book. The first successful cartoon is made in Britain and Switzerland in 1790. Whereas the Hogan’s Alley written in 1890’s. Moreover, the writer of Hogan’s Alley actually an immigrant from Hungary hence the idea of comics come from American is wrong.
Second, the most popular comic book is Tin Tin series, created in Belgium, and produced in 1922, the comic is very famous around the globe. Albeit the statement that Action Comics is the first popular comics is wrong since it produced 16 year later from Tin Tin series. Moreover, the writer of Action Comics is a Canadian.
Lastly, the Japanese manga and European comic was based on their respective culture instead of American. The manga project an Asia tradition without much influence of American comic books. The European comics such as Smurf and Asterix was created by European Disney writers thus it did not have a connection with American Disney.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: proposes
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Message: You used an adverb ('uniquely') instead an adjective, or a noun ('art') instead of another adjective.
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: Tin
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, furthermore, hence, lastly, moreover, second, so, thus, whereas, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1572.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15409836066 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59976638812 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508196721311 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 486.9 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 16.0 8.23620309051 194% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.7490740653 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.3333333333 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9444444444 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.27777777778 7.06452816374 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.44068317344 0.272083759551 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150206804763 0.0996497079465 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102004056951 0.0662205650399 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.267548851133 0.162205337803 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0636328942108 0.0443174109184 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.29 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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