VCC390H5- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)
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William blake: as will all visual media, one of early uses for comics was underground culture of pornography. Illegal, often distributed by mafia: boom, at turn of 20th c new york journals are engaged in war for readership, pulitzer debuts a comics page in new york world featuring so-(cid:272)alled (cid:862)yello(cid:449)- Hirt kid(cid:863: hearst steals artist away for new york journal american, pulitzer hires another one and continues the yellow-shirt kid, now there are two, yellow journalism. Language of comics: 3 languages at play, english, or language of country, comic language word balloons, etc. Semiotic structures: micro-semiotic: individual images, macro-semiotic: the image in context. Serialization: numerous comics have historically relied upon serialization, beginning, but no end to story, e(cid:454). Mar(cid:448)el"s (cid:862)ulti(cid:373)ate(cid:863) e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: serial form before collection due to, production costs, necessities of life, throwback to early days of the novel. Imposes artistic limitations: mandate each issue to ensure the next, forces resolution or containment upon individual chapters.
