This document provides an overview of comics and cartooning. It discusses different comic genres like cartoon, historical, sci-fi, and humorous. It also outlines specific comic techniques like using panels, shots, gestures, sound effects, and speech bubbles to tell a visual story. Comics are called "tebeo" in Spain, "funnies" in the US, and "manga" in Japan. Effective use of elements like camera angles, expressions, stereotypes, and onomatopoeia can engage readers through the sequenced images and text.
2. Comic or cartoon is a visual language that allows you to narrate a
story through images, texts, colors and sequences.
Comic is also called “tebeo” in Spain. In the United States they call
“funnies” to the press strips and in Japan, “manga”.
Comic genres:
· cartoon
· historical
· sci-fi
· terror
· sociological
· critical
· humorous (…)
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3. Comic specific resources:
· Type of shot
· Camera angle
· Gestures and stereotypes
· Sound effects and kinetic lines
· Technical script
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Each of the
rectangles used to
represent a
sequence is called a
panel.
6. Natural
(if the action is observed at eye level)
Birds-eye view
(above, but at a certain angle)
High angle or Cenital view
(if above and perpendicular to the object)
Worm’s-eye view
(very low angle)
Camera angles
7. Examples of gestures:
Bulging eyes and curly hair fear
Raising eyebrows reflection
Finger in mouth Silence
Examples of stereotypes:
The tramp with his bag
The cooks and their hats
A naked man with a barrel
Gestures and stereotypes
8. Stars for a hit
Starving with a chicken
A light on for an idea
Saw with trunk for snoring
Sound effects and kinetic lines
Visual effects
9. - Speech bubble
- Chart
- Cartridge
- Onomatopoeia
- Typography
Speech bubble. It is the space where the texts
that the characters think or say are placed. It has
2 parts:
Balloon
Delta
Literary expression
10. Chart: It's the narrator's voice.
It is not put in the image, but at
the top of the panel.
Rectangular shape.
Cartridge It is a type of chart
that serves as a link between
two panels. It serves to help
the reader to be in the story
11. The onomatopoia They are graphic representations of certain sounds. They
may be in or out of the speech-bubble
