Comments on: A tribute to Tin Tin http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/11/04/a-tribute-to-tin-tin/ Knowledge is Scrumptious Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:24:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/11/04/a-tribute-to-tin-tin/comment-page-1/#comment-876 Anonymous Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:19:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/11/04/a-tribute-to-tin-tin/#comment-876 Now i understand. that sounds very interesting. I need to read the "Understanding Comics" book. I had not given that much thought into why people like comics other than the perfunctory - it appeals to children. You have given me some serious food for thought. Thank you Saraswathi. Now i understand. that sounds very interesting. I need to read the “Understanding Comics” book. I had not given that much thought into why people like comics other than the perfunctory – it appeals to children. You have given me some serious food for thought. Thank you Saraswathi.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/11/04/a-tribute-to-tin-tin/comment-page-1/#comment-875 Anonymous Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:22:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/11/04/a-tribute-to-tin-tin/#comment-875 Ya sweat drops and exclamatory facial expressions are animate, but then I guess Scott McCloud describes the abstractness of features like eyes, nose, hair etc....He mentions that why elders/kids enjoy cartoons is because they can see themselves in the cartoon which is an abstract representation of a human face. The details are hidden so that any human being can fit his/her face into the cartoon and feel closer to the cartoon character. Also here abstract does not mean without "any" details. Here it means that the character in a comic is never a graphic image/high resolution image. Hope I made sense. But I would recommend you to read "Understanding comics". You will surely love it. It introduced me to look at comics in a whole new way. Ya sweat drops and exclamatory facial expressions are animate, but then I guess Scott McCloud describes the abstractness of features like eyes, nose, hair etc….He mentions that why elders/kids enjoy cartoons is because they can see themselves in the cartoon which is an abstract representation of a human face. The details are hidden so that any human being can fit his/her face into the cartoon and feel closer to the cartoon character. Also here abstract does not mean without “any” details. Here it means that the character in a comic is never a graphic image/high resolution image.

Hope I made sense. But I would recommend you to read “Understanding comics”. You will surely love it. It introduced me to look at comics in a whole new way.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/11/04/a-tribute-to-tin-tin/comment-page-1/#comment-874 Anonymous Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:55:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/11/04/a-tribute-to-tin-tin/#comment-874 Thanks Saraswathi. I haven't read the book you refer to by Scott McCloud. Sounds like an interesting one. That is interesting point about the backdrops in the series and facial expressions. I hadn't formed an opinion on that. Good one. He does show sweat drops flying off, exclamatory facial expressions etc. Does that not count as facial expressions? Thanks Saraswathi. I haven’t read the book you refer to by Scott McCloud. Sounds like an interesting one. That is interesting point about the backdrops in the series and facial expressions. I hadn’t formed an opinion on that. Good one. He does show sweat drops flying off, exclamatory facial expressions etc. Does that not count as facial expressions?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/11/04/a-tribute-to-tin-tin/comment-page-1/#comment-873 Anonymous Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/11/04/a-tribute-to-tin-tin/#comment-873 Great post Sukumar! I infact started my "reading" habit from the Tintin comics. Though I haven't read many of them, the few which I read did leave a great impact on me. I love all the characters in Tintin, especially snowy, professor calculus and ofcourse captain haddock. Recently read this book called "Understanding comics" by Scott Mccloud, in that he mentions why Tintin comics are so alive. If you notice, the backgrounds used in tintin, they are always picturesque, like a sea or mountain or desert. That's what makes them very real. And the characters(I mean their features like eyes or face is not pictured in detail) are always abstract because in our mind map the image of our own selves in inanimate(as we dont get to see our own emotions on our face). Great post Sukumar! I infact started my “reading” habit from the Tintin comics. Though I haven’t read many of them, the few which I read did leave a great impact on me. I love all the characters in Tintin, especially snowy, professor calculus and ofcourse captain haddock. Recently read this book called “Understanding comics” by Scott Mccloud, in that he mentions why Tintin comics are so alive. If you notice, the backgrounds used in tintin, they are always picturesque, like a sea or mountain or desert. That’s what makes them very real. And the characters(I mean their features like eyes or face is not pictured in detail) are always abstract because in our mind map the image of our own selves in inanimate(as we dont get to see our own emotions on our face).

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/11/04/a-tribute-to-tin-tin/comment-page-1/#comment-872 Anonymous Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:38:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/11/04/a-tribute-to-tin-tin/#comment-872 Thanks Joe. The link i provided within my post has a few more pointers for the self-portrait embeds. Thanks Joe. The link i provided within my post has a few more pointers for the self-portrait embeds.

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