HLTB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Underground Comix
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Icon: any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea: non pictoral: meaning is fixed and absolute. Ex: peace sign, checkmark: pictoral icons: meaning is fluid and variable according to appearance. Squier comics in the health humanities: 4 c"s: contingency, collaboration, complexity, conversation, medium of sex education. Contingency: reader is constantly called to attend on context- to the relationship between subject or event and the situations in which it is embedded. Complexity: sequence of panels expresses the passage of time, the story they communicate to the reader; asks reader to experience time and space (complex) Conversation: comics involve the exchange of media on the page as well as ideas. Squiers comics contd: her argument is grounded in her identification of a historical correlation between the rise of: Emergence of underground comics that challenged the silencing effects of enforced normativity. Comics offer perspective by incongruity by taking vocabulary: comics in public morality. Comics began as violent, assault, nudity, homosexuality.
