Comics is a medium used to express ideas through images, often combined with text or other visual information. Frequently, comics takes the form of juxtaposed sequences of panels of images. Often textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information.
Originally considered a genre of literature, or a minor of painting, and primarily to children, the comic strip won in the 60s its status as an art
Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or in comic books.
Over time, they gain in creativity and interest. They develop their own codes, their own grammars.
In the beginning only humorous, their development through sites like 4chan or 9gag, very popular in the 2000s. The most iconic is Ctrl + Alt + Del, which gave including the board « Loss », addressing the theme of miscarriages , become a meta-even by force of parodies and appropriation. I invite you to dig the subject, vast and very interesting.
One of the oldest and most developed today is Cyanide & Hapiness, which has been in existence since January 2005 and currently has 12 million Facebook subscribers.
It is with their democratization in the early 2010s via the explosion of social networks that they begin to address important topics such as politics and society, with for example StoneToss and his multiple parodies.
The majority nevertheless stands out on an absurd side, almost philosophical, like « oh no » or the awesome « False Knees ».
I invite you to be interested, more than a source of fun, they are sometimes carriers of real messages. And you, did you know these webcomics? Which ones do you follow?
Thibault.
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Hello, thank you for your article. It reminds me of when I was a kid reading my father’s old comics. They opened my imagination with comics about tintin who travels a lot and who made me discover many civilizations and cultures. I also read the comics Asterix and Obelix which brought me culture on the names of French cities as well as the history of certain countries such as Egypt or Wales. I also learned some Latin words that then gave the words we use now. Finally, thanks to the comic book, everyone can express themselves and learn a lot of things. With Gaston Lagaffe I finally learned the humour of this artist who really inspired me in the comics I write a few times and that I would like to do under motion design.
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