Comic Analysis #1

After looking through some funny, some inappropriate, and some silly comics, I remembered a comic that is hanging on my refrigerator at home and decided this was the one I wanted to work with. In this comic you see two men talking to each other. We infer that this conversation is taking place in a doctors office because one man is dressed like a doctor with a lab coat and stethoscope and clipboard in hand and there is also a doctors bed/table in the background. The "patient" appears to be in his undergarments, perhaps having just finished a checkup. The look in the patients face is a bit scared to hear the news the doctor has to say. The words to this comic are at the bottom and it says "What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?" We aren't told in this comic who is speaking the words, but after reading it and putting it into comparison with the picture, we know it is the doctor talking to the patient. After I look at it again, I guess the doctors mouth is open a bit, but I still don't think that gives away the fact that he is talking.

The colors of this comic are pretty just neutral. The peoples skin color is a bit orange and the colors they are wearing are just red, yellow, white and blue. The bed behind them is green. There are no extremely bright colors except for the doctors hair, which I didn't even realize until i was looking for colors. The font that the words are in is nothing special or crazy and therefore doesn't change or affect the words being spoken. The size of the patient is a little heavier than the doctor, showing that he needs to exercise and therefore follow through with the words of the comic. I find it kinda ironic though that the doctor is the size he is, but I think these characters are meant to have that roundish body type. You can see from looking at another comic by Glasbergen that this is true.

I think this comic is just so perfect for people of today to relate to. Everyone knows that they would be best off fitting any amount of time to exercise into their day, but we all just fall back on the excuse that we are too busy. This comic puts into perspective the fact that it is unhealthy to not have physical exercise in our lives and it could potentially shorten our lives and then we'd be dead. I think when people see this as a comic it will be a lighthearted reminder to go work out. I know i use the excuse all the time that I am too busy, which I am a very busy person, but there is at least 1 hour in the day that I'm not doing something productive and should be working out and this comic is a reminder of that.