IR Blog Post 2- Art That Outclasses Its Subject Matter

For this weeks art related independent reading I decided to go through a bunch of comics. The article states that all though comics such as ones found in MAD magazine may seem "unintelligible" or not worthy of TV, there a many hidden messages. Comics can have a lot of meaning behind them even if they do not appear to have any point of message that they are trying to get across. A MAD magazine artist named Mort Drucker drew many famous comics such as Popeye but was also assigned to draw and write other comics to well represent American culture. Drucker puts a lot of detail in his comics and really tries to bring the drawings and dialogue of the characters to life. I wonder what exactly it was that made Popeye so popular. I think it is because he takes a sailing character to the extreme and back then, many people found this rough and tough sailing man amusing.