VCC390H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Will Eisner, Comics Anthology, Political Philosophy
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Ramping (slowing down and speeding up) to get similar effect: comics are also less expensive. Definitions: auteur: an artist whose style and practice are distinctive, auteur theory: evolutionary progress line is jagged rather than a straight diagonal line; slow progression with random amazing areas of growth, ex. William shakespeare (writing was terrible before him), wolfgang. Amadeus mozart (music), miles davis (jazz), wayne gretzky (weird approach to playing hockey that now is norm: no body saw their styles coming, what does an auteur contribute to any given medium, pushes medium in new progressive ways. Police dog tries to stop mouse, possibly out of love for cat but cat doesn"t love dog. Cummings (poet) was also huge fan: describes krazy kat in a spiritual, romantic, and political (democracy, violence as love) reading, trademarks, surrealism, simultaneity (high and low art at same time, ex.
