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WRITHE and SHINE

This is a comic that started in 1998 and it seems to have become web friendly by 1999.

It is a huge success within the cult gothic cycle. Robert Trithardt completed a degree in illustration. He began his career with a comic “Schwartz”, for the school newspaper.

As most comics aspire, his style gradually gets enhanced as time prevails. Each comic is around three to four panels long.

It contains 2 main characters ‘Writhe’ and ‘Shine’, with around 4 sub-characters.
The story follows ‘Writhe’ through is gothic disk jockey life journey.

Personally, I enjoy this comic. Trithardt basically rants wittingly about his dislikes with the world.

http://writheandshine.com/




CRUEL WORLD

I have been following ‘Cruel World’ for quite some years now. Anton Emdin has been an inspiration for me. HE IS LEFT HANDED!!!!
He has been working as a free lance artist since 1996. He has done work for a shit load of media companies.

‘Cruel World’ comic style is very sharp, bright colours and touches some obscurely funny points.

http://www.antongraphics.com/



QUICKIE COMIC ART HISTORY - Newspaper

Comic Art, “the root of the art form can be traced to prehistoric cave paintings, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Renaissance tapestries.” (Walker. B, the comics SINCE 1945, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York, 2002)

Akin as the Sex Pistols where for punk rock, the granddaddies of Comic Art originated from the European times throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
“European artists pioneered the use of caricature, speech balloons, and sequential panels.” (Walker. B, the comics SINCE 1945, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York, 2002)

Shock horror, it was alas America who took ‘initiative’ and gave birth to the Sunday Funnies. Social and technological advances broke through around the concluding half of the nineteenth century thus, revolutionizing the newspaper comics.
“All of these elements that gave birth to this new art form – the mechanization of printing and distributing, the concentration of population in urban centers, the acceptance of new forms of graphic expression – had been gaining momentum for decades.” (Walker. B, the comics SINCE 1945, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York, 2002)

In 1986 a phenomena by the name of Yellow Kid by Richard F. Outcault swept the nation. Admiration of the Yellow Kid “proved that a comic character could sell newspapers as effectively as blaring headlines and sensational gossip.”