Visual communication and Cartoons

“Donuts. Is there nothing they can’t do?” Matt Groening, 1954– Cartoonist, Writer, Producer

Prepared by Danielle Oser, APR

Based the Simpson’s characters on family members

First Aired 12/1989 Example of Social Satire Longest Running Sitcom on TV

Simpson’s style is intentionally elementary – cheap and fast to produce

Single-Framed Cartoons

• Egyptian Paintings

Egyptian Mural

1700 years ago

An example of an early multiframe cartoon 1000 years ago: 1.6 x 230 feet

Bayeux Tapestry, 1067

Day of the Dead

Single frame cartoons intended to ridicule individuals by portraying them with exaggerated but recognizable human faces

Leonardo Da Vinci

Annibale Carracci

David Levine

A Harlot’s Progress William Hogarth: English

First American color comic strip, Hogan’s Alley Yellow Kid

Joseph Pulitzer And William Randolph Hearst competition over Richard Outcault led to the term

First English Political Cartoonist

Benjamin Franklin

Little Boney James Gillray

Boss Tweed Thomas Nast

Cartoonist responsible for the elephant symbol used by the Republican party

Drew cartoons for the WWII publication, Stars and Stripes

Civil Rights Era

Present Day Issues http://conradprojects.com/

Charles Shultz

The two major comic companies

Developed by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster

Stan Lee and Steve Ditko creators

William Gaines

Comic books in Japan and Asia

Graphic novel developed by the Naval Health Research Center to help corpsmen deal with the stress of combat

Gary Larson

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Technique used to move action from one frame to another – also used by motion picture directors

When used for dialogue balloons has a complex semiotic structure that viewers must learn to interpret

Homer Simpson’s large belly is an example of assimilation where features are exaggerated, usually for stereotypical effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk36qmiVBWw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHw0VYbsr4c

Eadweard Muybridge’s Zoopraxiscope

Require –24 frames per second

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY40DHs9vc4

Original name was Mortimer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4

http://looneytunes.kidswb.com/

Hanna & Barbera

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/20074/banned_commercials_1961_f lintstones_cartoon_winston_cigarett/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJCfUm21BsI

Nick Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j35td5-GivY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izb6rKX28bM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO3n67BQvh0

Limited Animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IrH4lCc5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2DeTet98o

Model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnE64DbnUzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRrZXNNBMUY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFCIaMyMORg

Avatar (2009) Director: James Cameron

http://www.jibjab.com/st_patricks_day/cards

More Graphic Novels And Comic Books

Sarah Glidden

Ethical issue for cartoons represented by children begging to toys based on cartoon characters