Hello and welcome to The Looking Glass, WBGS' very own Academic Blog. This year we are planning to breathe new life into this amazing blog as the Academic Head Boy team for 2025- 2026! However, at the Looking Glass we need your help to catapult this blog into it's GOLDEN AGE. We need your articles, your essays, your opinions and your finest work to MAKE THE LOOKING GLASS GREAT AGAIN! If you have read something interesting or watched something that sparked a thought on social media - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you entered a competition, however big or small - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you are interested in a specific field, issue or period - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you have produced artwork, a piece of music or creative writing - WE WILL PUBLISH IT! Your creative skills have been called to action - now we must muster to create, discover and explore. You are the creative minds of the future. The Plato's, the Newtons, the Angelo's, the Nietzsche's. This is your calling. This is Y...
The reason that I enjoy comics is because comics and graphic novels are funny, entertaining, suspenseful, full of action and they come in all sorts of genres. I started to like comics when one day I was at the airport and saw a book on the shelves for sale. With a peculiar look on my face, I looked at it and wondered "This looks like cartoon but on a book with funny looking characters and plenty of action - I shall go and check it out". I then walked to the shelve and saw the cover. It was magnificent! It was called "Dog Man". All the drawings on the inside were drawn in a cartoon-like fashion and so funny that I couldn't take my eyes off them! A few months later, I had read many of the Dog Man comics over and over. I then went to the store later on and saw another comic book with characters on the front cover drawn in a skilled and yet funny way. I then thought: "What is this superb piece of artwork with such magnificently drawn characters!". I yet...