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Written by Adamkasi
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Everyone knows animation when they see it. Animation is the process of using rapidly moving drawn or computer generated images to give the illusion of motion. Animation is what is used to make the Saturday morning cartoons you see on television and it is what is used to make those holiday specials everyone looks forward to seeing all year. Animation can also be done with 3-Dimensional objects like clay or action figures as in the very popular Christmas specials made back in the 1970's that featured small dolls being filmed using stop motion photography. Animation used to be considered a novelty when it came to movies or prime time television shows. Studios would never think of putting animation in a position where it would be the feature even after the 1930's when Walt Disney proved with Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs that animation could carry a full-length feature film. But over time something changed and now animation is threatening to be the method of choice for not only filmmakers but also prime time television producers as well.
For years the area of the animated feature film was the sole domain of the Walt Disney Company. Other companies would spring up and make the occasional animated feature but the only studio making their living, and reputation, almost solely on their animated feature films was the Walt Disney Company. Warner Brothers opened up an animation studio to compete with the animated short films that Disney was using to dominate the children's market and Warner Brothers also wanted to use their animated short films as an enticement for theater owners to show their regular feature films. If the theater owner agreed to show the Warner Brothers feature film being offered they would get the animated cartoon for free. Since the cartoons from Warner Brothers were becoming breakaway hits, and many people were gladly paying full admission just to see the cartoons, it became an easy way for Warner Brothers to get their movies into theaters. But by the late 1970's things started to change and animation was headed towards respectability in the mainstream media markets.
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Written by Emily Ragozzino
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[June 22, 2009] Emily Ragozzino's "Tom Boy Tara" (http://www.tomboytara.com) is a web comic involving gender stereotypes and college humor as key ingredients in making the comic so readable and enjoyable by both male and female audiences. The comic just began in September 2008 after Ragozzino had published a series of comic books all involving female outcasts entitled Dork Girl (A trilogy of books) and Why I Hate Cheerleaders featured on lulu.com and Amazon.com. These books were sold, along with paraphernalia plastered with art and logos from the books, at The Toronto Paradise Comic Convention two years in a row beginning in 2007 and again in 2008.
This year she hopes to attend the Toronto Fan Expo on the weekend of August 28th 2009 along with three male comic creator friends of hers (Terrence Gordon, Aaron Powers and Dan Wettlaufer) who she believes are extremely talented in their own way. Emily enjoys involving other artistic friends in her comic endeavors, even though she struggles as a cartoonist herself. Along with creating a website as well as numerous products on the site she is also gathering a select group of friends of hers to do a photo shoot involving three people dressed as her cartoon characters. The shoot is supposed to take place in front of a graffiti wall in downtown Toronto on July 5th 2009 and she's hoping the shoot will run smoothly.
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Written by Susan Werry
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Japanese manga is a big business right now. Tweens are not the only ones interested in this form of comic, either. There are versions for small children, all the way up through adult. Some are cute and whimsical, some are dark and somber. What draws people to enjoy this booming art form?
There are so many different things about manga that attract fans. The story lines can be simple, as in a child's cartoon, or very in depth. It can be light and funny or dark and scary. The characters themselves run the same gambit as the story lines. You can find fluffy animals all the way up to evil doers. There truly is something for everybody. Some manga are so engrossing, it's easy to forget that it's basically a comic.
When the craze started in America, the quality was average. There weren't that many manga available, so you took what you could get. Now there are entire sections of manga in book stores. The quality and quantity have both risen to scary proportions. The average reader can choose a genre, and then browse through many authors to find what suits them best.
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