1. COMICS, CARTOONS & ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT OF AN ART FORM

2. Simply Complex Cartoons reveal Complex exercise in Confronts significant issues

3. Popular Culture Definition: Concerned with “Things” = sign systems, symbols, artifacts

4. Cartoons as Pop Culture “Cartoons introduced generations of readers to symbolic ways of addressing the continuing problems of society and the philosophical questions of mankind…[They please] our visual sensibilities by bringing to life the kinds of dramatic conflicts that enable us to work out vicariously our internal frustrations.” –M. Thomas Ingle, Comics as Culture

5. Cartoons… Are pop culture Reveal Use Indicate

6. Single-Framed Cartoons One frame 3 types:

7. 1. Caricatures

8. Grotesques Antiportraits

9. 2. Editorial Cartoons

11. William Hogarth

12. 2. Editorial Cartoons Benjamin Franklin

13. 2. Editorial Cartoons Thomas Nast

14. 2. Editorial Cartoons

15. Nast, continued

16. 2. Editorial Cartoons Nast, continued

17. 2. Editorial Cartoons WW I

18. 2. Editorial Cartoons “Just give me the aspirin. I already got a purple heart.”

19. 2. Editorial Cartoons Editorial cartoons:

20. 3. Humorous Cartoons

21. Components of Visual Humor:

22. 3. Humorous Cartoons The New Yorker – –Charles Addams

23. 3. Humorous Cartoons

25. Difference Between Multi-Frame and Single- Shot Cartoons

26. Elements of Comics Symbolic Codes: –Characters –Facial Expressions –Assimilation –Balloons

27. Elements of Comics Symbolic Codes (continued): –Movement Lines –Panels –Action –Setting

28. History of Comic Strips 1850s Developed in newspapers Humorous social commentary

29. History of Comic Strips

32. Classic Comics Serials

33. Classic Comics Peanuts

34. Classic Comics

36. Comic Books Popular visual entertainment

37. Comic Books Mad Magazine

38. Comic Books Distinct link between Comic Books and movies –Superman –Daredevil –Batman –Punisher –Hulk –Fantastic Four

39. New Comic Books

41. Animated Films Combine camera, film, and projector Frame-by-frame animation Expensive and time-consuming

42. Animated Films Winsor McCay

43. Animated Films Cel Animation

44. Animated Films The Adventures of Prince Achmed – 1926

45. Animated Films Steamboat Willie – 1928

46. Animated Films 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

47. Animated Films Aim:

48. Animated Films Contemporary animation

49. Animated Films South Park

50. Technical Aspects Object Animation Combined live action w/ animation

51. Controversy Doonesbury

52. Controversy The Boondocks

53. Cartoons as Culture Comics help identify you Cartoons are part of any country’s culture

54. Cartoons as Culture Visual symbols reflect culture Meaning comes from culture’s verbal and visual codes

55. Cartoons as Culture Cartoons:

56. Next Time… Chapter 12 –Photography