Blog Prompts: Drinking at the Movies

Hi everyone!  For your convenience, following are some blog prompts for Drinking at the Movies:

•  Class anxiety, gentrification, and bodily space in panels  (possibly as compared to Lucky)
•  Alcohol or substance use as a character (separate from and merging with Wertz)
•  Interior architectural space (rooms and furniture, perhaps as compared to Special Exits and Lucky
•  Collaborative drawing (Laura and Julia's panels on page 166)
•  Drawings that include labels standing in for objects or concepts (i.e. "Freelance Factory," page 112)
•  Light and shading (or the absence thereof), hatching, cross-hatching, heavy and light inking
•  News coverage, the economy, and depression
•  The function of song lyrics (as compared to Persepolis)
•  Sherlock Holmes Mystery Theater
•  Realism of most of the book vs "The Ambush" (90), "Bad Brains" (91), and "The Amazing                              
   Adventures of The Wayward Wallet" (183)
•  Humor as a literary tool
•  The overall effect of the simplicity of the artwork on the reader
•  Compatibility and tension between the title and content of the memoir
•  Landlord stereotypes (p. 23) and diversity
•  Wertz's decision to present her future in the epilogue-style "If Only I Knew Then..." section on page        
    187, as opposed to expanding her book to include it in further panels

See you Tuesday!