WHY COMICS?

1. Comics foster autonomous personal narratives due to an impotent metanarrative.



2. Total design is useful for creating and exploring virtual distributed networks of characters, objects, ideas, etc. Immersive and addictive environments like Facebook can be explored in ways other than pre-defined user interfaces.



3. The character exists to the creator as self and other simultaneously. This results in creative roleplay that bridges consumer/producer and observer/participant relationships.




10 comments:

Beth said...

but total autonomy can be impotent

Blaise Larmee said...

no need for the 'but'

Blaise Larmee said...

actually, point taken

i view the art narrative as too dominant and the comics narrative as too impotent

Blaise Larmee said...

one interacts with dominant metanarratives as a consumer, with impotent metanarratives as a producer

JimJams said...

@Beth mirror mirror

@Blaise flutter flutter

Blaise Larmee said...

mirrormirror

Ian Harker said...

You can never drag the big fish into the small pond, but you can drag it's stench along with you.

Stan said...

@Ian

I do not get it

Ian Harker said...

@Eminem Reference

The world of contemporary art (big pond) will never have more than a passing interest in comics (small pond), but the small pond dwellers will always be allured by that big fish scent. You don't actually need to be a big fish if you can manage to smell like one.

Ian Harker said...

Same goes for contemporary literature of course.