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"Do you believe the comics are art?"

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"Yes, and so did Lichtenstein and Warhol"
Hightest Level: 2 by Geppetto on Sep 17 2008 (14 months ago)
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I’m going to put my own views out, here. Yes, I believe the illustrations in comic books are art.
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There is the comic book itself with the printed illustrations.
 
Original comic book art is another category. It is the production piece photographed for printing. Original art is the production pieces used to make comic books, usually a Bristol board with the artwork done by more than one person, i.e., one person makes pencil sketches, another person inks the sketch, another person does the text.
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Then there is art associated with comic books, billboards, supermarket products, advertisements. In the ’50’s and ’60’s this was called pop art. Pop Art borrowed heavily from comic books.  Artists would copy the style of comic books. Some used the same method used in printing the comic books...Ben-day dots. These are dots which are used to do the artwork.
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Roy Lichtenstein had a period in which he did Ben-day painting. The illustration is done by painting colored dots on the canvas. For dense colors the dots are close together, for lighter colors the dots might be further apart. Back before computers, if you magnified comic book illustrations you would see only dots.
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I’ve seen collections of Lichtenstein’s work . He did Terry and the Pirates, Flash Gordon and many other paintings. I remember a painting of Andy Warhol....a painting of a can of tomato soup.
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All of the above came from comic books. Yes, I believe comic book illustrations are art. Below are examples of Lichtensteirn’s work. 
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"Yes!"
Hightest Level: 2 by HaleyBob on Sep 17 2008 (14 months ago)
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Not only are they examples of art, they are examples of great literature.

 

I've used comics in the classroom quite frequently.........both individually and some as a series to teach plot arcs. 

 

 

As for ART:  Check out Frank Miller.  Hello!  His stuff is amazing! 

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Frank Miller is so hawt, they make movies of his stuff.
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"Most definitely!"
Hightest Level: 3 by Psi_Phi_Org on Sep 24 2008 (14 months ago)
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After all, if the written word is art (as in novels), and images are art (as in paintings), then how could a medium which combines the two not be art?

 

That said, just like paintings, there's "good art" and "bad art", but the "good" and "bad" labels are in the eye of the beholder.  For example, I don't see how Jackson Pollack got a reputation as a good artist, because his paintings are the same thing I see when I tune my TV to a channel that doesn't exist.  And yet some people think he's brilliant, and many of his paintings hang in prestigious museums.  That doesn't mean that I'm wrong about him—nor does it mean that the museums are wrong about him.  His paintings are undoubtedly "art"; the museums and I merely have different opinions about whether it's "good art" or "bad art".

 

Likewise, whereas I may see The Far Side (a one-panel comic) or Family Guy (a comic TV program) as "good art", others may see them as preposterous or stupid.  But regardless of our difference of opinion, they are undoubtedly art.
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A collection of Far Side panels.

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A classic moment (if 2 minutes 45 seconds can be called a "moment") from "Family Guy"
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"Definitely..."
Hightest Level: 4 by Musiclover68 on Sep 18 2008 (14 months ago)
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I love the comics and always have - Spiderman, Superman, Batman, and Dilbert, Cathy, and so many more.

 

It takes a special talent to convey a situation in a visual, colorful, descriptive way while using language to further your point. A really great artist like Scott Adams or Cathy Guisewhite uses facial or vocal expressions like (GAAAK) or hairdos (like Alice's) to drive home their message - whether funny or ironic or realistic.

 

A newspaper is not a newspaper without the comic page!

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..Definitely. I am an artist myself, and one of my influences in style, is in the old horror comic genre (ala Ghost Manor, House of Mystery, House of Secrets).
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