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October 06, 2005
Words and pictures
I am going to complain about the article "Funny What You Can Find In The Funnies". This article didn't made much sense and didn't grab my attention until the last paragraph. All of the writer's examples were so unfamiliar to me, that I didn't know how to respond to the writing after I read it. The "Dick Tracy", "Blondies", "Joe Palooka" what kind of comics are they? After my reading was done, I noticed that I gathered little information on how in some of those comics the main characters were intended to convince politically (Little Orphan Annie).
On the other hand, the other packet which included young couples' comic and conversation was interesting to me. When I read their conversation I felt little tension between those two. However, when I looked at the pictures on the next page, it almost made me very unsettled. In my mind, I imagined a picture of the couple to be closer to each other, but in the comics in the packet, they were physically close but emotionally detached from each other. The straight lines on their clothes, furnitures, on the walls, and finally on the blinder almost "screamed" at the viewer to be disturbed when looking at that comic. Visual images can show the meaing in few pictures what words can't in pages and pages.
~~~Zaya~~~
Posted by lcisbold at October 6, 2005 05:22 PM
Comments
Hi,
Some of the "old" comics (which apparently are still being written today) can be found on:
http://www.comicspage.com/
Posted by: Nanette at October 7, 2005 09:43 AM
Zaya,
Your observations of that comic about the couple's "conversation" were very astute...you are right to think that how the image is drawn communicates more emotional tone...tone is something that is very hard to convey with words on a page...nice job....do check out the comics listed above...but also if there are comic characters that you are more familiar with...go with those...have fun!
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