Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Untitled: By Winston Rowntree


 Untitled, written and illustrated by Winston Rowntree is a comic about two strangers. A young man and a young women walking through the woods discussing their political view points. Winston Rowntree, the author, owns his own pretend company named Virus Comix in which he makes his work known.  In addition to owning his own company, Rowntree never attend any  art school and has no kind of visual art training.  In his comic, Untitled, his Main purpose was to entertain his audience.  The comic tells a short story about to strangers who meet in the woods for the first time to realize that that they both are going to the same place.  The two strangers then ends up walking together and talking about school and their political views.  At the end of the comic the two individuals come across a Notzi soldier, consequently, ending in the death of the both the male and female characters.  At first, in the beginning of the comic i though the story took place in todays time because when the two characters talked about their political view points the story sounded like they were talking about the 2000 election Bush vs Gore.  Also, the two characters talked about the a war and all the bad stories they have heard.  Nevertheless, the two characters where talking about WWW II and the comic had to have taken place during that time because of the Notiz soldier and the genocide of the jews.  Over all i think this comic had a message in it as well.  It lets its audience know some of the things that jews had to go through during that time era. Many jews where caught in situations where they were face to face with Notiz soldiers and many of them where beating or even killed just for being a jew.  I think this comic teaches its audience that racism is bad and no one deserves to ever go through anything like what jews went to during WWW II.  

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