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Hey ho, you learn as you live, I guess. What I intended was a story in pictures, so I used, or misused the word comic. What would describe what i want more?
I am open for suggestions.
Tanya
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Comics
Comic or comics or comic strip is the right term for a serialized story told in pictures with word balloons and/or captions. That the word has another meaning of humorous is an accident of the way languages grow and are shaped by usage.
The Japanese word for the art form is "manga," which literally means sketchbook or cartoon book in the old sense of cartoon being a small drawing made as a study for a larger work. Nowadays, cartoon has a different meaning from what it did when English first borrowed it back in the Renaissance.
In Spanish you would say "tira" which can also mean "throw away" or "shoot".
Words change meaning and the right word is the right word by common usage. Comic or comic strip is the right word for the story form you are using.
Hugs,
Erin
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agreed.
Manga has never picked up any special connotation in its own language, but you are not Japanese, you are not drawing top-left to bottom-right, and you are not writing in Japanese from top-left to bottom-right. Therefore you are creating a comic.
You are likewise not Chinese, so it's not a manwha, nor are you Korean, so it is not a manhua. Or any other word from any other language. You are English, you use the English term.
It should be clear from context that you are not necessarily referring to anything humorous. Many American comics are in fact quite dark. Batman is a prime example of this.
Abigail Drew.
Will Eisner always preferred...
...the term "sequential art" for those comics that were not literally "comic"--which makes sense, but the term hasn't really caught on. "Graphic novel" for a serious comic book seems to be in fairly wide use, though.
Livin' A Ragtime Life,
Rachel
:)
There are books called "wordless books" and for the life of me I can't remember what the books Jirra wrote in Julie O's story coeds
Comic or not comic? That is the question
There are also the words Anime and Toon that are used for cartoons, but should also be able to be used in a traditional usage of pics with word balloons or or the dialogue/action written below as in the Prince Valiant series.
May Your Light Forever Shine
I apologize...
...what I meant as a complement seems to have been conveyed rather poorly. Of course, the format you've chosen has long been know as a comic strip. I meant no criticism in stating the contrast between comic and your work; rather that it is a very nice expression of the discovery the two characters are undergoing. Sorry.
Love, Andrea Lena
The term, "Comic Strip" typically refers to:
A serial comic like you would see in a news paper. Each serial usually consists of one line with from one to four panes or cels. See Skin Horse below for an example of a comic strip.
_Bev_
Are we beating a dead horse yet?
Ummm, sokay
sokay, so balloon? full of hot gaZ? now thereZ a thought. Butt knot ded horse. more like a piggy? Yea!
cartooningly,
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Thanks, enough already!
Thank you one and all!
I will continue to call it a comic strip, and I might even endeavour to place some comedic interlude into the narrative, but for the moment, it's enough to get three cells looking how I like them, so humour may be a little later.
Drea... no offence taken.. I actually agree with all that's been said, but was at a loss to know exactly how to describe it. I might have a go at some TG 'Funnies' when I get a bit bolder.
Tanya
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Not a comic, perhaps
I would think that the correct word you're looking for is cartoon strip rather than comic strip. Comic strip implies funnies whereas cartoon has a slightly broader meaning. After all, Leonardo Da Vinci drew cartoons, didn't he?
Having said that, the two terms have overlapped somewhat in meaning in the last few decades, so perhaps it's not as important any longer.
Your style is simple but effective. I wish I could draw anywhere near as good as the panels you have drawn so far. Keep it up!
Penny
graphic novel
is an interesting term for a story that uses drawings to help tell the story.
My vote
Would be for a graphic novel. Cartoon to my mind misses the mark by a bit because of it's overly broad envelope of containment. I would how ever also consider Manga 1st because it is so much closer definition, and the classic manga format has been modified for the English speaking public by flipping it to be presented in the format we are accustomed to. 2ed In science you need exacting definitions in the cultural reality the rest of us comply with, a more broadly used definition is more suitable and removes many places for argument. American English incorporates a lot of other languages altering definitions to fit. I have found in general splitting hairs not to be useful except when making jokes or trying to piss people off.
With those with open eyes the world reads like a book