LO1: Reseach into an existing comics

 DC Comics:

DC stands for Detective Comic series. Its a company that is Known as a National Allied Publication. The DC comic books were taken from the Detective Comics series. With the rise of the series of Batman who is a well-known character that audiences recongnises. DC has made a lot of  comic books, which features a lot of  superheroes such as Superman, Batman, Wonder women, Martian Manhunter, The Flash, Green Lantern and Aquaman are from this Universe, but as the team such as Justice League and The Teen Titans. DC's first release in comics was in 1934. The first comic was first Published under National Allied Publications. It was changed to DC comics in 1977, whose inspiration came from their popular series Detective Comics which had featured Batman. Most of the DC comics that have been made have been turned into movies that have came out in the cinemas and DC have series of there comics like Teen Titan on Netflix. DC is a Superhero Fantasy Science Fiction Action Adventure. In there comics they show and explore the themes of good vs evil whilst having a heroic protagonist and a villain and the hero ending up saving the world. At first DC was a niche audience but the comics have grown and now it has a mass audience from the ages 18- 34. Since it has explicit and strong language. For example Suicide Squad, since the group uses a lot of explicit language it wouldn't have the same audience as Batman or Teen Titian. Dc audience is overall 51% of men and the other 32% of women that read there comics. Since there is mainly men as DC target audience they over sexualised the women costumes. This presents an ideal self to women that read the comic and also represents an ideal partner to male gender that reads these comics. This happens in a lot of the comics like Wonder Woman and other female leading comics.

Sensation comics featuring Wonder Women:

The genre of this comic is adventure, fantasy and action like most of the DC comics. On the front cover of the Wonder women comic you can see that the main character,  is the main objective standing in a dominant pose holding her weapon in her hands in a location that looks verisimilitude to the audience. This setting can connote that she is in action in the setting location. The target audience that Wonder Women comic book has is a mass audience because of all the series that she's in. DC target audience for Wonder Women for the ages of 18+. Since her clothes are tight and well fitted and this connotes that it is easier for her to move in. but this also connotes that she could be an ideal partner because of the way she is dressed but she could also be an ideal self to women because they could look up to her and want to be like her. The demographic it is targeted for is aimed at the ABC1 audience since the storyline could be hard to follow and that this comic is targeted for older audiences because of the way Wonder Women is portrayed in the comic and it also requires people that can have a wider reading mindset so they can carry on with the series and since Wonder women is series the ABC1 audience would be able to afford to read the comics and stay up to date with the series. the creators of Wonder women is William Moulton Marson also know by his pen name of Charles Moulton who written and created Wonder Women. Harry George Peters an American illustrator and cartoonist also a co-created one of the comics for the Bud Fisher of the San Fransisco chronicles.

Shonen Jump:

Weekly Shonen Jump was launched by Shueisha in July 1968 to compete with the already-successful Weekly Shonen Magazine and Weekly Shonen Sunday. The films that were created by Shonen Jump was range from full-blown drama series to live-action films that also found their way into the cinemas around the world. the graphic novels that Shonen Jump made are Volume 1 Of Dragon BALL, Dragon Ball Z ,Naruto, One Piece, Shaman King, Yu Gi Oh!, And Yu Yu Hakusho. Shonen is a manga genre catering for young boys and teenage boys. The target age demography is between ages of 12 - 18. The Shonen genre is a high - action adventure and it exploits a factional male protagonists. The company is Shueisha is Japanese company which is a  huge part japans culture. 

YU-GI-0H!: Vol. 1

In YU-GI-OH! vol. 1 the main character Yugi is a tenth-grader always had his head in a game. until he solved a millennium puzzle, an EGYPTIAN ARTIFACT that contained the spirit master gambler from the age of the pharaohs who is possessed by the puzzle. Yugi becomes Yu-Gi-Oh the king of games. He challenged evildoers to the shadow games. The front cover of the cover of the graphic novel you can see that Yugi is in a dominant stance to show his young audience that he is in power of the game he is stood in front off. He also shows power in the front cover with his weapon to show that he is a master of the game. The target audience for this comic is for 8- 18 years old which shows that this comic is age appropriate for a younger audience and a older one too. The demographic that this anime graphic novel is targeting is C2DE since it has a younger audience and wont be able to afford to by this comic but for the younger audience that have bought this there parents would be in the demographic target audience of ABC1. the person that did the drawings of the comic is Kazuki Takahashi and he also did the illustration. 

In these comic pages that I took from Naruto. the structure that is on the page is mostly are square and it is putting the story together. the layout is consecutive. it helps lead u around the page in a linear fashion. which goes from right to left from top to bottom. the imagery of the main character who is Naruto who's outfit is a flak jacket which had protective clothing, that is also popular among ninjas. Flak jackets had a lot of pockets and pouches that can be used store his weopans and other supplies so he can have quick access to them. The symbol on his headband is a forehead protection its made of metal plates and a band cloth. The forehead protectors are worn by a lot of the Shinobi and is engraved with the symbol of they're hidden village.  The forehead protection helps Naruto feel more energy much easier. The Target audience of all ages but it mainly caters to a younger audience of 6- 10 years old. the speech that is on these pages has basic English because it would be easier for there target audience would understand. The colour of pages are in black and white because it is simply cheaper and easier to publish and for the Naruto since it is one of the jump weekly it is one of the comics that come out every week. The props that are shown in the comic is a pig that was used as food, plates, a bottle and a table and chair. T he costumes that was wore by the characters where wearing clots. The characterisation of Naruto is that they are a strong group of teens.