Shane Smith: Academaesthetics
3 views
Skip to first unread message
James Neill
Nov 3, 2007, 12:08:14 AM11/3/07
to teachAndL...@googlegroups.com
Essay x Comic ? -
http://coyotesqrl.blogspot.com/2007/10/shane-smith-academaesthetics.html
"He's produced something new-but-not-new, by using the medium of a comic to vitalize an academic essay discussing the forms and functions of both comics and essays in which he finds both to be oddly constrained because of their open, infinite definitions. His contention is that "certain general social assumptions have cropped up: the essay is boring, and the comic is childish" partly because neither medium has a better, formal definition."
"He's produced something new-but-not-new, by using the medium of a comic to vitalize an academic essay discussing the forms and functions of both comics and essays in which he finds both to be oddly constrained because of their open, infinite definitions. His contention is that "certain general social assumptions have cropped up: the essay is boring, and the comic is childish" partly because neither medium has a better, formal definition."
--
Email: ja...@wilderdom.com
Web: http://wilderdom.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jtneill
Wiki/blog: http://ucspace.canberra.edu.au/x/fIAeAg
Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/jtneill
Email: ja...@wilderdom.com
Web: http://wilderdom.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jtneill
Wiki/blog: http://ucspace.canberra.edu.au/x/fIAeAg
Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/jtneill
minh mcCloy
Nov 3, 2007, 5:04:12 AM11/3/07
to teachAndL...@googlegroups.com
just read it - wonderful
thank you James for the pointer - love comics, always have - enjoy essays, wish i could write them. academaesthetics is pure pleasure.
:)
minh
Leigh Blackall
Nov 3, 2007, 7:05:11 AM11/3/07
to teachAndL...@googlegroups.com
Reminds me of Scott McCloud's wonderful book, Understanding Comics
A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication along the way. Understanding Comics was a Harvey and Eisner winner, was praised in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and Wired, and is in over 13 languages. A favorite of interface, game and Web designers despite the fact that it doesn't mention computers once!--
--
Leigh Blackall
+64(0)21736539
skype - leigh_blackall
SL - Leroy Goalpost
http://learnonline.wordpress.com
A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication along the way. Understanding Comics was a Harvey and Eisner winner, was praised in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and Wired, and is in over 13 languages. A favorite of interface, game and Web designers despite the fact that it doesn't mention computers once!
--
Leigh Blackall
+64(0)21736539
skype - leigh_blackall
SL - Leroy Goalpost
http://learnonline.wordpress.com
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages