color

comic book

film

superflat

occupation / innovator as

painter

nationality

American

comics artist

, when flat in tone, gives more significance to forms and shapes. The world becomes a playground of shapes and space.

In flat colors forms themselves take no more significance. The world becomes a playground of shapes and space' (McCloud 1992:192) the chapter on color is really good stuff.

is defined against the single panel so Family Circus and Far Side do not qualify as comics.

...the concept of what comics is gets narrower as we go along. Each writer on the subject who defines comics wants to exclude something. McCloud excludes the single panel so Family Circus and Far Side are out. Blackbeard says there must be word balloons so Prince Valiant is out. Harvey says there has to be a visual-verbal balance. Somebody else says there must be no redundancy of information with words and pictures repeating each other. This is crap. Pictures have illustrated words and words have explained pictures since the beginning of time. Somebody reads a dull comic and extrapolates rules from it. Who do they think they are? There are all these people trying to be the rule-makers and the end result is bad for the art of Comics.

is just a bunch of pictures strung together with a couple of word balloons strewn about.

is defined in terms of time (images one after another on the same screen) where comics are defined in terms of space (panels on page).

Scott Mccloud Very good explanation of time and space film happens on one space (the screen) and uses time as its language -Comics use space (panels) juxtaposed in various ways across the page.

is an artistic movement that recognizes that with flat colors, forms and shapes take on more significance.

In flat colors forms themselves take no more significance. The world becomes a playground of shapes and space' (McCloud 1992:192)

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