CCT336H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Making Comics, Seth Meyers, Niche Market
1 Dec 2020
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Self portraits: think about what we would change, what did change, what we liked, what was complicated, reflect every week to improve. Webcomicname: comics can be used to reveal personal parts of life and character through humour, comics often draw people who are lgbt because it"s a medium that allows you to recreate and represent yourself however you want. Genre as community: history of article and author, https://pages. gseis. ucla. edu/faculty/agre/genre. html. Breadth: genre definitions can be narrowly or broadly construed, generally, focused genres have more analytical value, e. g. Television is a genre but a very vague one. All sequential art (mccloud)--not all that useful beyond general definition, also not precise, animation is same: many subgenres of comics can be dissected different subgenres are different literary, artistic and cultural spaces, e. g. subtypes of manga. Japanese development of manga sub-genres for toddlers to the elderly, from vanilla to violent. Producer/consumer relationship: producer and audience relationship important in defining dynamics of genre, one-to-many (mass) vs.
