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Intro to Comics! - Coggle Diagram
Intro to Comics!
What is our relationships to comics?
superheroes and dad's and comics collections
expense!
we love animation and story telling and shaping bodies (it's a body medium)
it's a cool PROCESS and maybe we have insidder knowledge
online versus print publications
apps and online
MARVEL!
X men cause my siblings were mean
graphic novel adaptations: visualizes classic lit (Wings of Fire)
swearing in on the 1st superman comic?? Robert Garcia CA rep (42nd district)
newspaper comics! (political cartoons, comics in the strips, etc)
comics take away imagination from prose fictions?
the pacing/mise-en-page
Darkhouse on my tablet; expanding on already existing worlds and made more collaborative
Frank Miller's descent into fascisms
What are comics? Graphic novels?
Hatfield
Alternative Comics
where do comics go culturally?
overly associated with children (34);
How do we
read
comics? :
questions of literacies and reading development (coming from Wertham) - "picture reading" and lzainess (34): it's not "real" reading; the visual takes away from the rigor
it also is a little ableist this framework of "reading disorders"
But is reading comics easier/more linear that linear prose?
Hatfield: words approaching images (36); "passive and
Scott McCloud
Understanding Comics
"Comics is the word worth defining as it refers to the medium itself not a specific object" (4) - medium describes the process/way/vehicle instead of the printed artefact?
he adds "Sequential art" is at the heart of the arts of comics? (pg 5); we care about the sequence--the process in times/spaces; it needs
Comics history: Comics Code Authority
Who are readers of comics (allegedly)?