- Serious commentary on serious topics…but in a silly way.
- Hits you in the face hard
- Sends a message fast
- Now cartoons can be in the form of graphic novels, cartoons, animations, comics etc.
- The worlds way of freely expressing ideas and debate
- Free expression sometimes come at a price
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- Charlie Hebdo
- 12 deaths
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- Used as a vehicle for a message
- Journalist hat: finds important stories to cover
- Commentator hat: a personal perspective on the news to make you think
- Satirist: taking commentary and adding humour to it to make it interesting
- Artist: taking the satirical commentary and turning it into a cartoon
“a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down”
Political Cartoons in the Middle East
- Middle east has experienced a lot of political instability and tragedy in the past few years
- Amidst this conflict: these political expressions have flourished: comics, cartoons and graphic novels
- Satire and mockery
- Comics are easily disseminated on the internet
- They can be understood across different cultures, levels of education and social groups.
- Their messages can reach a wider audience
Panel: a framed image
- Offers the reader perspective or point of view
- also known as the camera angle
Borderless panel
- Unique effect
- subject seems to stand outside the storyline
Gutter: space between the panels
- Readers tend to fill in the blanks or imagine what happens in between
Voice over:when narrators speak directly to the audience
- Usually in a hard line at the top or bottom of the image
- Separate to the panel
Splash: an image that spans the width of the page
Bleed: an image that runs off the page entirely
Emanata: tear drops, sweat drops, motion lines to portray emotion
Speech bubble: frames around the characters words to indicate that they are talking.
Style: the artists drawing style. Whether its complex or simple, realistic or iconic, objective or subjective, specific or universal
Colours: artists can use colour to help communicate their message
Narration: combination of direct and indirect narration
Graphic weight: The amount of contrast in an image.
Foreground: where the subject is the point of focus
Midground: if the subject stands in the middle of the scene that is depicted
Background: the objects in the background (usually not the subject)
Time: Artists tell the story in a linear timeline. In graphic novels and story books, sometimes artists will discuss multiple events in one panel like a collage, in order to avoid a linear storyline
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