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Constrained Comics
{{Original research, date=September 2007 Constrained comics is a form of comics that places some fundamental constraint on form beyond those inherent to the medium. By adding a constraint, the artist is attempting to produce original art within tightly defined boundaries. A conceptually similar movement is the constrained writing movement, where writers have attempted to do things such as write novels in palindrome, palindromic form or Lipogram, without the letter "e". Poetry is sometimes constrained into specific rhyme and meter categories such as haiku or sonnet. Examples Notable examples of constrained comics: * Gustave Verbeek's ''The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo'', a weekly 6-panel comic strip in which the first half of the story was illustrated and captioned right-side-up, then the reader would turn the page up-side-down, and the inverted illustrations with additional captions describing the scenes told the second half of the story, for a total of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comics
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. There is no consensus amongst theorists and historians on a definition of comics; some emphasize the combination of images and text, some sequentiality or other image relations, and others historical aspects such as mass reproduction or the use of recurring characters. Cartooning and other forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics; '' fumetti'' is a form that uses photographic images. Common forms include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, comic albums, and ' have become increasingly common, while online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century. The histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watchmen
''Watchmen'' is an American comic book Limited series (comics), maxiseries by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins (comics), John Higgins. It was published monthly by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987 before being collected in a single-volume edition in 1987. ''Watchmen'' originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics. As Moore's proposed story would have left many of the characters unusable for future stories, managing editor Dick Giordano convinced Moore to create original characters instead. Moore used the story as a means to reflect contemporary anxieties, to deconstruct and satirize the superhero concept and political commentary. ''Watchmen'' depicts an alternate history in which superheroes emerged in the 1940s and 1960s and their presence changed history so that the United States won the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal was neve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Arbuckle
Jonathan Q. Arbuckle is a fictional character from the ''Garfield'' comic strip by Jim Davis. He also appears in the animated television series ''Garfield and Friends'' and ''The Garfield Show'', two live-action/ CGI feature films, and three fully CGI films. Jon is the owner of Garfield and Odie. Development The character of Jon Arbuckle was originally envisioned by Jim Davis as an author surrogate and was the primary character of the comic strip ''Jon'', created by Davis in 1976 and syndicated locally in the Indiana newspaper '' The Pendleton Times''. ''Jon'' featured Jon Arbuckle alongside his pet cat, Garfield, and a dog named "Spot", who would eventually evolve into Odie. Davis eventually decided to replace Jon with Garfield as the main character, with the renamed ''Garfield'' strip achieving national syndication in 1978. Fictional biography Jon told Garfield that he was 29 years old in a December 23, 1980 strip. However, in the episode "T3000" of ''The Garfield Show' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garfield Minus Garfield
''Garfield Minus Garfield'' is a webcomic by Dan Walsh. Each strip of ''Garfield Minus Garfield'' is an edit of a comic strip from the comic ''Garfield'', removing all characters except Garfield's owner Jon Arbuckle. Jim Davis, the creator of ''Garfield'', approved of the project, and an official Garfield book (also called ''Garfield Minus Garfield'') was published by his company. It was mainly edited comics by Walsh, with some comics contributed by Davis. ''Garfield Minus Garfield'' is also the name of a strip published by Paws, Inc. using the same premise, which started in late 2008 and ended in 2020. Content ''Garfield Minus Garfield'' is made from existing ''Garfield'' strips, which are edited to remove Garfield the cat and his thought bubbles from the image, as well as removing other characters such as Nermal and Odie. No other changes are made. This leaves Jon Arbuckle alone in the strip, talking to himself. Creator Dan Walsh noted that since Garfield doesn't actually res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exercises In Style
''Exercises in Style'' (french: Exercices de style), written by Raymond Queneau, is a collection of 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style. In each, the narrator gets on the "S" bus (now no. 84), witnesses an altercation between a man (a zazou) with a long neck and funny hat and another passenger, and then sees the same person two hours later at the Gare St-Lazare getting advice on adding a button to his overcoat. The literary variations recall the famous 33rd chapter of the 1512 rhetorical guide by Desiderius Erasmus, '' Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style''. Translations The book has been translated into the following languages: *English by Barbara Wright (1958); reprinted with 28 additional exercises (by Queneau) translated by Chris Clarke and 10 new exercises written in homage (New Directions, 2013) * Serbian by Danilo Kiš (1964) *German by Ludwig Harig and Eugen Helmlé (1974) *Dutch by Rudy Kousbroek (1978) *Italian by Umberto Eco (1983) *Greek by A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Madden
Matt Madden (born 1968 in New York City) is a U.S. comic book writer and artist. He is best known for original alternative comics, for his coloring work in traditional comics, and for the experimental work '' 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style'', which is based on the idea of Raymond Queneau's '' Exercises in Style''. He also teaches comics at the School of Visual Arts and Yale University. Career Madden began his career self-publishing minicomics in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the early 1990s. He was co-editor with Matt Feazell and Sean Bieri of the anthology ''5 O'Clock Shadow''. After several of his short pieces appeared in established publications, Madden's first graphic novel, ''Black Candy'', was published by Black Eye Books in 1998. In the mid-1990s Madden began writing reviews for ''The Comics Journal'' and other publications. He is a consulting editor for the mini-comic Le Sketch. He works in illustration and comics coloring and also teaches comics storytelling a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oubapo
Oubapo (, short for french: Ouvroir de bande dessinée potentielle; roughly translated: ''"workshop of potential comic book art"'') is a comics movement which believes in the use of formal constraints to push the boundaries of the medium. OuBaPo is styled after the French literary movement Oulipo (''Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle''), founded by Raymond Queneau and Georges Perec. Oubapo was founded in November 1992 in the Ou-X-Po and announced in L'Association's French comics edition. Meaning of the name The term "ouvroir," originally used in conjunction with works of charity, was reused by Queneau for a blend of "ouvroir" and "œuvre" ("work") and roughly corresponds to the English "workshop." The term "potential" is used in the sense of that which is possible, or realisable if one follows certain rules. Thus, "OuBaPo" can be roughly translated as "Potential Comics Workshop." Constraints Some OuBapoian constraints: ; Reduction: A book or comic summarized in very few pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clipart
Clip art (also clipart, clip-art) is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in a digital form. Since its inception, clip art has evolved to include a wide variety of content, file formats, illustration styles, and licensing restrictions. It is generally composed exclusively of illustrations (created by hand or by computer software), and does not include stock photography. History The term "clipart" originated through the practice of physically cutting images from pre-existing printed works for use in other publishing projects. Before the advent of computers in desktop publishing, clip art was used through a process called paste up. Many clip art images of this era qualified as line art. In this process, the clip art images are cut out by hand, then attached via adhesives to a board repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partially Clips
''PartiallyClips'' is a webcomic, created by Rob Balder, which ran from 2002 to 2015. At the start of 2010, Balder handed authorship of the comic to Tim Crist, the comedy musician behind Worm Quartet. Premise ''PartiallyClips'' is a constrained comic. Each three-panel strip consists of a single clip art image – the comic has no original art – repeated and unchanged in each panel, with added speech balloons and/or captions to create the joke. ''PartiallyClips'' tends to use dark humor; frequently, the picture used is rather idyllic, which is common in public-domain clip art, but the added dialogue or captions twist the scene. ''PartiallyClips'' also frequently comments on modern life and culture, especially aspects of Internet culture. There are no recurring characters or plots. Its name is a mondegreen: "Partially Clips" sounds similar to "Partial eclipse". Distribution and reception ''PartiallyClips'' was updated twice weekly, on Sundays and Thursdays. The ''partiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinosaur Comics
''Dinosaur Comics'' is a constrained webcomic by Canadian writer Ryan North. It is also known as "Qwantz", after the site's domain name, "qwantz.com". The first comic was posted on February 1, 2003, although there were earlier prototypes. ''Dinosaur Comics'' has also been printed in three collections and in a number of newspapers. The comic centers on three main characters, T-Rex, Utahraptor and Dromiceiomimus. Comics are posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Every strip uses the same artwork and panel layout; only the dialogue changes from day to day. There are occasional deviations from this principle, including a number of episodic comics. North created the comic because it was something he'd "long wanted to do but couldn’t figure out how to accomplish... e doesn'tdraw, so working in a visual medium like comics isn’t the easiest thing to stumble into." Cast *T-Rex, the main character that appears in all six panels. *Utahraptor, T-Rex's comic foil, appears in the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constrained Writing
Constrained writing is a literary technique in which the writer is bound by some condition that forbids certain things or imposes a pattern. Constraints are very common in poetry, which often requires the writer to use a particular verse form. Description Constraints on writing are common and can serve a variety of purposes. For example, a text may place restrictions on its vocabulary, e.g. Basic English, E-Prime, copula-free text, defining vocabulary for dictionaries, and other limited vocabularies for teaching English as an additional language, English as a second language or to children. In poetry, formal constraints abound in both mainstream and experimental work. Familiar elements of poetry like rhyme and Meter (poetry), meter are often applied as constraints. Well-established verse forms like the sonnet, sestina, villanelle, Limerick (poetry), limerick, and haiku are variously constrained by meter, rhyme, repetition, length, and other characteristics. Outside of establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, visual artist and actor. A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and the César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. In 2007, a panel of critics convened by ''The Guardian'' announced that "after all the discussion, no one could fault the conclusion that David Lynch is the most important film-maker of the current era", while AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking". His work led to him being labeled "the first populist surrealist" by film critic Pauline Kael. Lynch studied painting before he began making short films in the late 1960s. His first feature-length film, the surrealist ''Eraserhead'' (1977), became a success on the midnight movie circuit, and he followed that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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