CRWR 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The Yellow Kid, Horror Fiction, Will Eisner
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2: cartoon, newspaper strip, panels, graphic novel. Looks more like modern comics: words and pictures. Comic book codes: not allowed to have charcter with bad qualities, no person in authority getting questioned, no vampires, horror etc The silver age (the crazy one: a lot of camping trips. People with colour representing comic books (a little more) Expliciity show issues with race, sex, drugs etc. : not going with comic code, made by this expressive rule. 25. rules have fallen away: movement in superhero comments, allan moore, push to market comics to adults. Super trade paperbacks: (superman, batman, sandman etc, archie books, graphic novels, will eisner, maus, the dark night returns, alternative small press, alt fantasy, bone. Literary horror fiction: magic realism, graphic memoirs, graphic journalism. Comic strips anf cartoons: calvin hobbs, web comics, manga (japan, large world comics. Seth , scott pilgrim, shest brown, guy delise, julie doucet, educational comics.
