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.
The article states that the comics are uniquely an American art form and provides three reasons to support his point. However, the professor explains that the comics is not uniquely an American art form rather its developmental credit goes to the different part of the world as well. He refutes each of the points presented by author by providing with his own logical examples.
Firstly, the reading claims that the first successful commercial comic was Hogan’s Alley which was a comic strip from 1980. But, the professor refutes this point by giving the example of the earlier commercial comic of 1790 which was very popular across Europe and Switzerland. Also, he states that the write of Hogan’s Allay was an immigrant to America refutes the point made by author in the reading passage.
Secondly, the reading passage posits that, world’s first popular comic book was also an American one. Nevertheless, the professor says that, Action hero comics were written 16 years before superman and spider-man comics in Belgium which was widely known as Tintin and still popular across the globe. Also, the professor presents that, though the characters of superman and spiderman were from America, the writer of comic was a Canadian which proves that the origin of comic was not America as stated in the passage.
Thirdly, the reading passage says that, Americans invented comic strips and exported throughout the world. However, the professor refutes this statement by providing with the example of European Disney which was created before the American strips and the European comic strips were also exported to different nations.
In sum, the professor refutes each single point stated by reading passage with suitable examples to prove that American comic were not a unique form of art.
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...an comic were not a unique form of art.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, still, third, thirdly, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1523.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 291.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23367697595 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46724865525 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.46735395189 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 466.2 419.366225166 111% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.9057918381 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.916666667 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.25 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.58333333333 7.06452816374 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.374337578322 0.272083759551 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.168806058136 0.0996497079465 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0946775945411 0.0662205650399 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22266431635 0.162205337803 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0579765861002 0.0443174109184 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.