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I just had a look around at his stuff now - terrific. Thanks (if you're still reading here...).erosoplier wrote:Michael Leunig
JackRiddler wrote:Aubrey Beardsley
justdrew wrote:
AhabsOtherLeg wrote:Seriously, though, a lot of comic book artists trace themselves back to Blake, seeing him as the most respectable progenitor of the form. He was self-taught, not really recognised as a significant artist in his time, and a bit of a social misfit, if not outcast. Creating his own illustrations and "captioning" them with his poetry does make him a sort of proto-comic-book creator. At least, that's the argument.
JackRiddler wrote:AhabsOtherLeg wrote:Seriously, though, a lot of comic book artists trace themselves back to Blake, seeing him as the most respectable progenitor of the form. He was self-taught, not really recognised as a significant artist in his time, and a bit of a social misfit, if not outcast. Creating his own illustrations and "captioning" them with his poetry does make him a sort of proto-comic-book creator. At least, that's the argument.
I think it's true that Blake was a direct progenitor of the modern comic book. It's the newsprint technology in mass society that made the comic book a distinguishable form, for so long laughed off or decried as dumb stuff for the demented.
However, the idea of stories told in a chronologically arranged sequence of painted panels is a lot older than Blake, even with captions and dialogue.
Check out the Legion of Greek Orthodox Saints.
barracuda wrote:Contortions which reveal, most of all, the poor opinion of the real history of the craft held by those who seem to wish to wish to ignore these true practitioners in favor of a more fashionably "visionary" artist, but who more likely have even never heard of Gillray, or George Cruikshank, or the countless others who actually created what we understand today as a comic or cartoon. [/cartoon soapbox]
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