Comics Overview Combine text graphics highlow symbols Purpose

Comics

Overview • Combine text & graphics~ high/low symbols • Purpose: Entertain, Inform & Persuade • Involves imagination • Genres Comics

Language of Comics • Closure = mind fills in action between panels • Inference = conclusions drawn between images • Conventions of Presentations – Balloons – Motion lines – Textual sound effect Comics

Closure Comics

Inference Comics

Balloons Comics

Motion Lines Comics

Textual Sound Effect Comics

Types of Comics • • Editorial Strips & Panels Comic Books Graphic Novels Comics

Editorial Comics

Panels Comics

Strips Comics

Editorial • Context • Topical • Shelf-life Comics

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Strips & Panels • Types: – Slice of life – Serial or episodical Comics

Comic Book • Bound collection of previously run comics • 1930’s Funnies on Parade 1 st collection unpublished • 1938 Superman: birth of superhero comics Comics

Superman: Icon of durability • Comic book 1938 • Radio dramas 1940’s • Adventures Of Superman – B & W TV series 1951 -1957 • Animated TV series • Films: 1951, ‘ 78, ‘ 80, ‘ 83, ’ 87, • 06, 13 • Lois & Clark TV series • Smallville Comics

Batman: Multi-media Superhero • • • Comic book May 1939 Film serials: 1940’s Film: 1966, 1989, 1992, 2005, 2008, Batman 3 2012 TV: Primetime 1966 -1968 -animated sound effects • TV: Animated 1969, ‘ 73, ‘ 77 Comics

Comics & Society • • • Dr. Rex Morgan Issue apology & warning Don’t use aspirin for infant cold Don’t follow prescriptions--only a cartoon “…readers should never use the medical opinions …as a substitute for visits. Comics

Comics & Society • Beetle Bailey: Sexual Harassment/Sensitivity training Comics

Comics & Society • For Better For Worse: Death Comics

Comics & Society • Japan: 40% of all books & magazines published in Japan are comics • $7 Billion a year on comic book sales • Many spin-offs • Pokemon--TV series & seizures Comics

Comics & Society • War effort • Build morale • For the GI’s (troops) Comics

History of Comics • • 1900 -1930’s Newspaper comics 1930’s Comic Books 1941 -1945 WWII & the war effort 1950’s Government investigation/Code 1980’s-1990’s Comic book collectors 1990’s Comic books fading--future uncertain 2009 Digital comics--Apple’s e-Comics

Future of Comics • Marvel –giant move to digital in 2013 Disney • DC-Warner Brothers Comics

Comics to TV Series & Movies • Incredible Hulk • Batman • Superman Comics

Graphic Novels Comics

Editorial: Shelf life Comics

Funnies on Parade • 1930’s Funnies on Parade 1 st collection unpublished • Significant because it showed there was a market for first run comics Comics

Bound Collection Comics

Graphic Novels Comics

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