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 passage proposes the idea that comic is a unique art form from America. It states 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 text claims that the first popular comic book is Action Comic, which is the story that introduced the Superman for the first time. Moreover, the text also believes not only Japanese Manga is hugely influenced by American comics that brought to Japan after world war two but also the European famous cartoon such as Asterix and Smurfs heavily influenced by Disney cartoon. For instance, the character shows a similarity of the character. All the stated reason supports the idea of a comic is an art from America. 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 most financially advantageous comic is from 1970’s Britain and Switzerland comics. Whereas the Hogan’s Alley written in 1890’s. Furthermore, the writer of Hogan’s Alley is actually an immigrant from Hungary, not American. Therefore, the idea of comics comes from the United States is wrong.
Second, the first well-known comic book is TinTin 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 not true since it produced 16 years later from TinTin. Additionally, the writer of Action Comics is a Canadian not American.
Lastly, the Japanese manga and European comic were based on their respective culture instead of American. The manga project an Asia tradition without much influence of American lifestyle. European Disney writers created the European comics such as Smurf and Asterix thus it did not have a connection with American Disney.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, furthermore, if, lastly, moreover, second, so, therefore, thus, well, whereas, for instance, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1654.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 315.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25079365079 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73460324831 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51746031746 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 513.0 419.366225166 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.23620309051 182% => 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: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.1942022443 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.8888888889 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.11111111111 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.436076981296 0.272083759551 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152080207079 0.0996497079465 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.097357608966 0.0662205650399 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.269772701333 0.162205337803 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0815502016918 0.0443174109184 184% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.87 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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