Comic art is not only a medium to entertain the children but the same time also helpful to increase  imagination power,conceptulisation for any age group and emphasise anything to be one in this competetive world.The youth can adapt this either by reading or by doing.The artists have many kind of styles to draw a comic e.g cartoon,semirealistic,realistic,carricatures,etc and makes more prominent by the didgital color effects.

     To become a comic artist you should have a instict for good visualisation so you can illustrate the concept or story whichever you have in mind.First of all,for the beginers it is must to have a hold on the pencil or brush (it is your choice what media you want to apply) just practice with oval and circular shapes and with standard primitive shapes like box,sphere,cone and cylinder.To keep a fine grip on pencil most of the artists being practicing with oval and circular shapes while they are too good in drawing and popular but just for a hold.

     To draw any object or character you should observe the things and living beings deeply  with their nature and behaviour so that you can easily draw a consequential illustrations which is most important thing for the comic art e.g observe the rubber ball’s behaviour and it’s anticipations,when a rubber ball thrown by force than watch how many times it bounces over the ground against the gravity and also watch it’s stretching during the up-down movements. for another instance watch a an animal for their behaviour how they act,and for their anatomy and feature details.Obervations not only makes your art mature but also make realistic.when you start to draw a comic strip you should keep patience and draw the scenes or characters using their dynamic angles and perspectives like bottom view,worm eye view,top view,bird’s eye view etc.

     To  make more prominent to the scene,panel or character you should draw them using dynamic angles and perspectives so the reader have some fun and can read the story with enjoyment.For the beginers it is recommended that they should observe famous comic and graphic novel artists work,live sketching,images and paintings,anatomy books to be a good artist.

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The satirical and edgy comic strip “The Boondocks,” created by Aaron McGruder, involves two young African American brothers from inner-city Chicago who explore life living with their grandfather in an unassuming suburb of the big city. The strip, which ran in syndicate from April 19, 1999 to March 26, 2007, was certainly no stranger to controversy as “The Boondocks” has regularly received criticism from both the white and black communities in regards to McGruder’s strong left-wing political and often risque views on current events.

Aaron McGruder was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 29, 1974 and at the age of six relocated to Columbia, Maryland with his parents and an older brother where the family set down their roots. After attending both a Jesuit and public school, Aaron eventually went on to attend the University of Maryland where he graduated with a degree in African American studies.

At the time of “The Boondocks” inception, McGruder was a DJ on the university’s radio station WMUC while he also debuted his new comic strip in The Diamondback, the campus’ newspaper, in December of ‘96. McGruder pulled his strip from the paper in March of ‘97 after a rift with the editor who refused to print an apology for omitting “The Boondocks” from a publication due to what was said to be a technical error. The strip then moved on that very same year to appear in a monthly hip hop magazine called The Source where it quickly gained popularity and was soon syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, making its nationwide debut two years later in April.

At its peak, “The Boondocks” was syndicated in more than 300 different publications and by the Fall of 2003, McGruder enlisted the help of artist Jennifer Seng to take over most of the strip’s illustrations while he concentrated on the dialogue. Although fans were worried “The Boondocks” would change without McGruder’s artistic influence, he made it a point to have a hand in drawing each and every strip, even if it were just to tweak a small detail or two, and stayed true to his word.

Throughout the life of the controversial strip, both it and McGruder routinely came under fire from the public as it poked fun at famous people and much talked about issues such as terrorism, the government, and a few well known White House figures like Condoleezza Rice, and also conservative commentator Larry Elder, who the strip’s characters named the recipient of their “Most Embarrassing Black Person of the Year Awards” the “Elder” after.

In some newspapers, “The Boondocks” was actually published in the op-ed pages rather than in the comic strip section and McGruder has even received hate mail over the views of the characters in his strip. In late February, 2006, Aaron McGruder announced to the public that “The Boondocks” would go on hiatus for six months starting in March and then resume again in October with runs of repeat strips to appear in the meantime. More than half of the newspapers it appeared in opted to run new strips instead of repeats, and by September 25, 2006, the president of Universal Press Syndicate announced that the comic strip would not be returning although no explanation or word of retiring the strip permanently was given by McGruder.

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Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at Illinois, says that comics are just as sophisticated as other forms of literature, and children benefit from reading them at least as much as they do from reading other types of books.

“A lot of the criticism of comics and comic books come from people who think that kids are just looking at the pictures and not putting them together with the words,” Tilley said. “Some kids, yes. But you could easily make some of the same criticisms of picture books — that kids are just looking at pictures, and not at the words.”

Although they’ve long embraced picture books as appropriate children’s literature, many adults — even teachers and librarians who willingly add comics to their collections — are too quick to dismiss the suitability of comics as texts for young readers, Tilley said.

“Any book can be good and any book can be bad, to some extent,” she said. “It’s up to the reader’s personality and intellect. As a whole, comics are just another medium, another genre.”

Critics would say that reading comics is actually a simplified version of reading that doesn’t approach the complexity of “real” books, with their dense columns of words and relative lack of pictures. But Tilley argues that reading any work successfully, including comics, requires more than just assimilating text.

“The term ‘comic’ is somewhat pejorative and tends to denote the child-like and ephemeral, and it brings to mind the Sunday funnies that you used to line your birdcage,” she said.

The term “graphic novel” is sometimes used to give comics a measure of respectability, Tilley said. But some artists, including Pulitzer-Prize winner Art Spiegelman, hate the term.

According to Tilley, even in the early 1900s, there were teachers who raised concerns about children reading comics — that their content wasn’t appropriate content for a children, and that it wasn’t real literature.

And when the first comic books were published as omnibus collections of popular published comic strips in the mid-1930s, “the same concerns sprang up again from adults,” Tilley said. “They claimed the texts weren’t good texts because they used slang, there were misspellings, they used colloquialisms and that the pictures were of questionable merit.”

Although commercial publishers of comics have yet to recapture children’s imaginations, Tilley says that some librarians and teachers are increasingly discovering that comics can be used to support reading and instruction.

“In the last 15 years, we’ve seen some big changes. For instance, comic book publishers and distributors are showing up at library conferences and some review journals regularly evaluate graphic novels. That would have been unimaginable 20 years ago. So it has caught on, to some degree.”

Public libraries collect comics and graphic novels much more than school libraries, primarily because of decreases in funding and emphasis on strong ties to the curriculum through No Child Left Behind.

“Comics tend to be omitted under those circumstances,” Tilley said.

“There has been an increase in the number of comic book-type elements in books for younger children,” Tilley said. “There’s also a greater appreciation among both teachers and librarians for what comics and comic books can bring to the classroom. For example, the National Council of Teachers of English sponsors an instructional Web site called ‘Read, Write, Think,’ which has a lot of comics-related material. Instructional units like these would have been much more rare 10 years ago.”

Tilley’s research on comics was published recently in School Library Monthly.  Adapted from materials provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Where can i find all the comic strips that are found on bebo skins?

On bebo skins there are sometimes funny comic strips. the people are sort of stick men but with sort of square bodies.
what website can i find these on?
On bebo skins there are sometimes funny comic strips. the people are sort of stick men but with sort of square bodies.
what website can i find these on?

try bebostation.com

etc..

just google ‘em

i used to have a bebo.. had a comic strip.. i’ll try looking for the link

try the link below and the Last link:
comic strip

i gots to admit comic strip ones are hard to find!! =]

ps: do i get 10 points lol!

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