Post 6 (Week 6)
In class film- "Yellow Submarine"
Late 1960's (1968), Stylized artwork, very illustrative style with simplified shapes and vibrant colors. Shape Language is reminiscent of the art of the late sixties and early seventies, Scenery/ backgrounds hold a vibrant, watercolor styled background. Collage, mise-mash of different elements, from animated panels to colage. Reminiscient of Monty Python animated collage. Museum of comic characters, saw our old friend the phantom. Juxtoposition of elements like Monty Python. Story based around some of their most famous songs, using the songs as a basis for events and introduction of charachers (Nowhere man). An interesting movie told through the various songs of the beatles, using different arrangements of elements for each song.
- European pshychodelic art movement
-its not about story arks, very child-like story, episodic, psychology, experience,
-Pschyedelic art, rotoscope
-Predigital, all analog means
-not really for kids, for the college/ highschool/ young adults.
-not the real beatles,
TODAY: Underground Comics
Inheritence of outrage
Drool Magazine- Delving into racier and more sexualized topics, it does not shy away topics that are avoided from other comics of its time.
Crumb- documentary on the real crumb of the adult comics movement.
Don't take homemade LCD (no 60's emulation)
First phase- pen shops
Second phase- Small shops, creative loafing, boston village- source of all information, sex information, free meals, ad hoc editorial staff.
Crumb does a new comic ZAP #1,
hippies collect prints on printing day and sell them.
Collectible market/ shops- comic books and baseball cards-then
now- comic books and table-top games.
Vietnam- very suspicious war- protect the oil companies' interests.
Vietnam war caused a massive political shift that is still felt today
Underground comics contain sex, racism, sexual assault, left wing politics, strong autobigraphical comics. Groups of comics artists for different ZAP issues, isolation of women causes movement in autobiographical comics for women.
"Bigfoot" Characterization- characters with big feet, low angle design, 30's style animation,
tell it as it is, let it all hang out. Don't hold back.
Herione addicts wrote the comic drool, someone funded this. It is completely honest to and true to form.
Anybody can make a comic, underground comics creates a democratization of comics, begins trend of web comics, with well designed comics and not well drawn comics, but great content
In comics, everything is open, sex lives, drugs, nothing that cant be done.
Blows open the doors of comics, work and make comics, you'll improve (unless your comics are really stupid, but then they become cool because they are naive).
Underground comics persist through the 1970's.
Next movement- Alternative comics/ art comics. Next week, read mouse. Extended response to mouse. Found magazine called raw, underground comics end early 80's into alt comics.
evolution occurs as it transitions into legit stores, book shops, comic shops
Interpretation: Mr.Natural and Shuman the human.
I read Mr. Natural and Shuman the Human, and well I was pretty shocked. It had a small sense of humor but some of the subject matter definitely caught me off guard, the underground is a part of the comic section i feel like you need to see but I feel like talking about some of these stories in person isn't the smartest, which i feel is the point. The story with Mr. Natural and the baby and the pedophilia had me step back and wonder what i had read into. On a side note with the comic, the origins of the character are crazy, with the progression of time from comic to comic, signifying his age yet there are photos of him younger, bit confusing. He's a unique character, hes an animated character without a filter. I hadn't known what to expect with this comic but he feels like a shaman or a guru, but a terrible one. He gets himself in his predicaments through his clumsy actions and some of the no filter freedom creates a sense of where do these ideas come from? Crumb is not shy to touch on the taboo topics, and it comes across as pretty disturbing. Its a rauchy kind of comedy.
Late 1960's (1968), Stylized artwork, very illustrative style with simplified shapes and vibrant colors. Shape Language is reminiscent of the art of the late sixties and early seventies, Scenery/ backgrounds hold a vibrant, watercolor styled background. Collage, mise-mash of different elements, from animated panels to colage. Reminiscient of Monty Python animated collage. Museum of comic characters, saw our old friend the phantom. Juxtoposition of elements like Monty Python. Story based around some of their most famous songs, using the songs as a basis for events and introduction of charachers (Nowhere man). An interesting movie told through the various songs of the beatles, using different arrangements of elements for each song.
- European pshychodelic art movement
-its not about story arks, very child-like story, episodic, psychology, experience,
-Pschyedelic art, rotoscope
-Predigital, all analog means
-not really for kids, for the college/ highschool/ young adults.
-not the real beatles,
TODAY: Underground Comics
Inheritence of outrage
Drool Magazine- Delving into racier and more sexualized topics, it does not shy away topics that are avoided from other comics of its time.
Crumb- documentary on the real crumb of the adult comics movement.
Don't take homemade LCD (no 60's emulation)
First phase- pen shops
Second phase- Small shops, creative loafing, boston village- source of all information, sex information, free meals, ad hoc editorial staff.
Crumb does a new comic ZAP #1,
hippies collect prints on printing day and sell them.
Collectible market/ shops- comic books and baseball cards-then
now- comic books and table-top games.
Vietnam- very suspicious war- protect the oil companies' interests.
Vietnam war caused a massive political shift that is still felt today
Underground comics contain sex, racism, sexual assault, left wing politics, strong autobigraphical comics. Groups of comics artists for different ZAP issues, isolation of women causes movement in autobiographical comics for women.
"Bigfoot" Characterization- characters with big feet, low angle design, 30's style animation,
tell it as it is, let it all hang out. Don't hold back.
Herione addicts wrote the comic drool, someone funded this. It is completely honest to and true to form.
Anybody can make a comic, underground comics creates a democratization of comics, begins trend of web comics, with well designed comics and not well drawn comics, but great content
In comics, everything is open, sex lives, drugs, nothing that cant be done.
Blows open the doors of comics, work and make comics, you'll improve (unless your comics are really stupid, but then they become cool because they are naive).
Underground comics persist through the 1970's.
Next movement- Alternative comics/ art comics. Next week, read mouse. Extended response to mouse. Found magazine called raw, underground comics end early 80's into alt comics.
evolution occurs as it transitions into legit stores, book shops, comic shops
Interpretation: Mr.Natural and Shuman the human.
I read Mr. Natural and Shuman the Human, and well I was pretty shocked. It had a small sense of humor but some of the subject matter definitely caught me off guard, the underground is a part of the comic section i feel like you need to see but I feel like talking about some of these stories in person isn't the smartest, which i feel is the point. The story with Mr. Natural and the baby and the pedophilia had me step back and wonder what i had read into. On a side note with the comic, the origins of the character are crazy, with the progression of time from comic to comic, signifying his age yet there are photos of him younger, bit confusing. He's a unique character, hes an animated character without a filter. I hadn't known what to expect with this comic but he feels like a shaman or a guru, but a terrible one. He gets himself in his predicaments through his clumsy actions and some of the no filter freedom creates a sense of where do these ideas come from? Crumb is not shy to touch on the taboo topics, and it comes across as pretty disturbing. Its a rauchy kind of comedy.
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