ThornburgEAR4

1) This example of satire is poking fun at the fact that people will be so quick to buy something that has a brand name or logo because they want to fit in. **What makes this good?** The satire is clear and it is easy to understand what they are poking fun at. They use contrast with the black and white instead of no color at all. They also use contrast by bolding words to emphasize how the character might be saying it. **What makes it bad?** I don't see anything bad with this comic strip except for I would like it more if it had color because it would be much more appealing. However, I really like how the topic they chose to make fun of and I think they did a good job at doing so effectively.

2) This example of satire is making fun of how teachers say they are going to help students and then expect the student to just do everything on their own anyways. **What makes it good?** I like the ending that says "that doesn't involve you very much" because in the beginning the teacher said WE are going to come up with a plan, it wraps up the point the author was trying to make nicely. **What makes it bad?** I don't like the pictures especially the third picture because it does not make any sense to me, it looks very distant and hard to tell what is going on. I also think they could have done a better job with contrast to make it more appealing to readers.



3) This satire is poking fun at the fact that Roman numerals take too long to figure out in order to read them. **What makes it good?** It doesn't get right to the point, instead it causes readers to think a little and then once they understand, it could be very comical. I also like the repetition of the boxes, for example the first row the first and last box has a border while the second does not and then on the bottom row, the author did the opposite and made the middle box have one. **What makes it bad?** The alignment of the the text bubbles in the first box of the bottom row could be hard to understand because it is positioned in the other box.



For my version of satire, I also decided to create my own comic strip. My comic strip pokes fun at the differences and stereotypes of business majors and psychology majors. I decided to use black and white for contrast because I did not want to draw more attention to the picture than the actual text. One of the things I did that I liked was put pictures of what each person is thinking of in thought bubbles above their heads to add to the exaggeration of the conversation. For the ending of mine, the part where the business major asks to be friends is meant to be ironic because based on stereotypes and the differences found in characteristics of students in each major, the psychology major would be more likely to ask that question than a business major would.