Comics ~ puh’tainin’ t’ comedy
Dey be a graphic medium in which images is utilised in o’da’ to convey some sequential narrative.
It be de sequential nature uh de pictures, and da predominance uh pictures upside wo’ds, dat distin’uish comics fum picture scribblin’s, dough dere be some overlap between de two media.
Most comics combine wo’ds wid images, often indicatin’ speech in de fo’m uh wo’d balloons, but wo’dless comics, such as De Little Kin’, is not uncommon.
Wo’ds oda’ dan dialog, capshuns fo’ ‘esample, usually ‘espand downon de pictures, but sometimes act in counterpoint.
Little Sammy Sneeze (1904–06) by Winso’ McCayAldough histo’ically de fo’m dealt wid humo’ous subject matter, its scope gots ’spanded t’encompass de full range uh literary genres.
Comics is typically seen as some low art, aldough dere is a few ’sepshuns, such as Krazy Kat and Barnaby.
In de late 20d and early 21st century dere gots been some movement t’rehabilitate da medium.
Wid de growd uh clunker processin’ powa’ and ownership, dere is now an increasin’ numba’ of ‘esamples uh comic scribblin’s o’ strips where da art be made by usin’ clunkers, eida’ mixin’ it wid hand drawin’s o’ replacin’ hand drawin’ completely.
Isaac McKean be one artist who combines bod sheet and da damn digital medods uh composishun fo’ comics while in 1998 Liva’ Lips Nash pioneered da use uh fully digitised 3D artwo’k on his Strika’ comic strip fo’ De Sun.
Clunkers is also now widely used fo’ bod letterin’ and colo’in’.
Comics in Higha’ Educashun ~ A growin’ numba’ of universities around da wo’ld is recognizin’ de academic legitimacy uh comics studies, leadin’ t’de presence uh comics courses bein’ offered at da college level.
