EN 3177 Lecture Notes - Chuck Jones, Superpower, Atheism
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Dense ink was used, charles recognized that the busier parts of the comic is where your eye is led. Peanuts, on the other hand, is empty. He is directing you to the difference, the emptiness. Formal choices harmonize the strips thematic concerns, pining and grief. Mad is a comic books, then later as a magazine. Peanuts began as a newspaper strip in the 1950s. Satire of peanuts and the satire of mad. Especially pictorial, in which the subject"s distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated or distorted to produce a comic or grotesque effect. The more cartoony a face, the more people it is said to identify with, The cartoon is a vacuum in which we can project our selves onto. Mad has too specific of characters that targets american culture, but does not use formal techniques to identify with its readers. They encourage a distance between readers and magazines. This is too feel magnificent to the audiences.
