Topic: Creating comic books 2/21/13 General Purpose:To Inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of the creative process of creating a comic book. Central Idea: I will inform you all of the artistic process of creating a comic book: Penciling‚ Inking‚ and Coloring as well as examples of Artists who break these rules. Introduction A. According to The Comics Chronicles‚ the North American Comics Industry made an estimated 715 million dollars last year. From sales of print comic book
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Social anxiety is a type of anxiety that involves the fear of being judged by others. It causes the interaction of people in the social context to be minimal. There is a certain discomfort that is experienced with people of such a disorder. Some cartoons and comics have been created with the aim of responding and reflecting to social anxiety. Therefore‚ the essay examines the three comic works that are phenomenon of social anxiety. Murder‚ Morphine and Me was written by Jack Cole‚ which can be described
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Showing and Telling About Language From hieroglyphics to modern communication‚ imagery and words have always been total opposites‚ while simultaneously one in the same. Show and Tell‚ by Scott McCloud‚ discusses this natural connection one makes between language‚ imagery‚ and words and the methods through which comic artists express this connection. The piece appears in his graphic essay Understanding Comics‚ prompted by McCloud’s experience as a comic artist and reader. Show and Tell specifically
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In his informative book “Understanding Comics‚” Scott McCloud discusses the effectiveness of a technique he calls “amplification through simplification.” This is essentially the notion that using an artistic style that been “dumbed down” and simplified from an absolute realism doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s subtractive from the overall piece of work. In fact‚ McCloud goes on to prove that this technique can actually be more effective than using realism altogether. Used correctly‚ amplification
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Tommy Nguyen The Invisible Art Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art‚ by Scott McCloud‚ is a book composed in comic book form that explains the importance of comic books‚ and how they are written and why they are written the way they are. Right off the bat‚ McCloud relates to the reader by explaining the world of comic books through the actual art form. Through this art form‚ the reader will feel a sense of closure to the topics because the reader is experiencing the world of comics first-handedly
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Violence in media is healthy and beneficial for children—or so claims Gerard Jones‚ author of “Violent Media is Good for Kids”. It is undeniable that the title of Jones’s essay is straightforward and aptly named‚ if not confidently bold. But while his claim may boast confidence‚ it lacks credibility. Jones does do a great job introducing his controversial claim by using passion‚ persuasion‚ and personal experience. However‚ his insufficient evidence and fallacious reasoning fail to support
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Showing and Telling About Language From hieroglyphics to modern communication‚ imagery and words have always been total opposites‚ while simultaneously one in the same. Show and Tell‚ by Scott McCloud‚ discusses this natural connection one makes between language‚ imagery‚ and words and the methods through which comic artists express this connection. The piece appears in his graphic essay Understanding Comics‚ prompted by McCloud’s experience as a comic artist and reader. Show and Tell specifically
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In the vocabulary of comics‚ Scott McCloud discusses an idea which he dubs‚ “Amplification through simplification”(2). By logical analysis‚ it is true that by removing some features and taking the piece of art at face value‚ we are‚ in essence‚ looking at a more simplistic image. However‚ this simplification is obscured by the amplification effect. That is to say‚ as one strips away the details and substance in their piece of art‚ the more significant the remaining features become. With less visual
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In reading Emily Steinberg’s webcomic Graphic Therapy: Notes from the Gap Years I am starting to notice a common thread in graphic novels‚ the father narrative. In Debbie Drechsler’s Daddy’s Girl‚ and Alison Bechdel’s‚ Fun House: A Family Tragicomic‚ the father was the main theme of their story. In Steinberg’s webcomics the father is not the main character‚ however‚ he does have a powerful impact on her psyche. By analyzing Steinberg’s and the other two comic artists‚ I found I have several things
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popular webcomic written by Andrew Hussie. It’s about four kids who play this game called "Sburb" while twelve grey humanoids with candy-cane coloured horns called trolls play the troll version of the human’s game called "Sgrub". The humans’ and trolls’ timelines clash and a mess that spans the entire universe of Homestuck is created. I would write more about it‚ since I have interest in it‚ I am not updated on the humans’ and trolls’ current situation. Another reason is even though the webcomic has
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