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THE RISE OF THE POST-MODERN GRAPHIC NOVEL - Coggle Diagram
THE RISE OF THE POST-MODERN GRAPHIC NOVEL
Dawn of an Art Form
comics
Golden age between 1938-1949
Was a era of steretype and symbolic personifications
There was evil and there was good
No place for ambiguity
Mythological being
Silver age of 1961-1975
Graphic novel
Shattered into not only genres but into visual styles interchangeable with cinema and television
Gave hope and larger than life examples to live up to in the face of overwhelming odds
A resurrection
Silver age of comics
Moved into a rediscovery of the heroes that went to world war 2
Comic books were static and locked to a rigid formula perfected over the years before books were printed
It took the dramatic horror and unassuming style of Art Spiegelman’s holocaust allegory Maus to inject life into a stagnant art form
A background in graphic design
Writing instruments and texts are used to convey ideas that are suited to objects but are specific actions, thoughts and emotions that are too complex or specific for visual representation
Visual art and text
Visual representation of narratives were employed for the benefits of the illiterate masses that they may memorize the content of the bible
The philosophy of modernism and the changing dominant ideology
Modernism was and continues to be a line of thoughts in the late 19th century
Concerned with synthesizing traditional beliefs such as spirituality and christian world views with modern scientific realities
Early years of the 20th century were filled with economic instability and war
Used text as image and became the avant garde of modern graphic
Into post-moderism
Logical conclusion