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Seems hipocritical, but I do agree with Nate about For Better or Worse. It is a great comic strip story that continues on, everyone is growing up or old or dying off and it isn't candy coated. It's a real story.
Lots of these 'family' strips, though, have to be read by family folks to say, "Aww, cute!" While harsh readers such as myself read them and say, "Typical" in most cases.
Baby Blues is an exception to that though because they do have 'gag strips' moreso than 'based on life' strips. The gag strips are the ones I find most humorous. The closer to life a comic is the less attention I pay to it while, when a comedian is on stage and mentions something (using good timing) that I can associate with my own life, a comic strip MUST be thought through so that there is a definite beginning and end to the story for that particular strip, and the timing MUST be impeccable. If it is not laid-out right, if it is not worded just so-so, if it isn't increased or decreased by the amount of frames or lights-darks, if it is not aesthetically pleasing and balanced and triggers in our mind the elements of "Story, Art, Joke/Point" then we are totally lost on the strip and its value as a whole is lost.
Comic strips began as humorous portraits of everyday life, drawn in cross hatchings and reprinted in magazines (journals/almanacs) or newspapers. Eventually, the literate's use of anthropomorphosized animals made its way into cartoon drawings and when the simplification in the drawing of people and animals were done into the forms of the likes of Krazy Kat or Willie and Joe then you can probably say that cartoon drawings became comic strips.
The way that comic strips are reprinted on newsprint paper is, I think, one of the reasons that art medium is not as well appreciated as, say, oil paintings or watercolors. However, if a newspaper were to be printing new paintings by Picasso or Salvador Dali, then they would certainly never give up that art space for an advertisement whereas they do for Donald Duck (which isn't very good anyways) or Pogo.
Anybody going to help my campaign to gain more respect for comics from the papers?
Kev
Lots of these 'family' strips, though, have to be read by family folks to say, "Aww, cute!" While harsh readers such as myself read them and say, "Typical" in most cases.
Baby Blues is an exception to that though because they do have 'gag strips' moreso than 'based on life' strips. The gag strips are the ones I find most humorous. The closer to life a comic is the less attention I pay to it while, when a comedian is on stage and mentions something (using good timing) that I can associate with my own life, a comic strip MUST be thought through so that there is a definite beginning and end to the story for that particular strip, and the timing MUST be impeccable. If it is not laid-out right, if it is not worded just so-so, if it isn't increased or decreased by the amount of frames or lights-darks, if it is not aesthetically pleasing and balanced and triggers in our mind the elements of "Story, Art, Joke/Point" then we are totally lost on the strip and its value as a whole is lost.
Comic strips began as humorous portraits of everyday life, drawn in cross hatchings and reprinted in magazines (journals/almanacs) or newspapers. Eventually, the literate's use of anthropomorphosized animals made its way into cartoon drawings and when the simplification in the drawing of people and animals were done into the forms of the likes of Krazy Kat or Willie and Joe then you can probably say that cartoon drawings became comic strips.
The way that comic strips are reprinted on newsprint paper is, I think, one of the reasons that art medium is not as well appreciated as, say, oil paintings or watercolors. However, if a newspaper were to be printing new paintings by Picasso or Salvador Dali, then they would certainly never give up that art space for an advertisement whereas they do for Donald Duck (which isn't very good anyways) or Pogo.
Anybody going to help my campaign to gain more respect for comics from the papers?
Kev
