Artist Information:
Jeff Bailey
Pittsburgh, PA
United States
Member Since: Nov 2000
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Artist Statement:
COMICS IS
Comics as an Essential
American Art Form
Comics, as a mode of
expression, as an art form,
can be absolutely anything
anyone wants it to be. As R.
Crumb duly noted, “It’s only
lines on paper.” And these
lines may make letters and
words, signs and symbols, and
images of any sort and in any
combination that can be
conceived. The possibilities
are literally endless.
The key to understanding
comics, as Scott McCloud would
have us do, is to locate the
position of comics in our
society and the function that
arises thereof. Comics, as an
American form, has its primary
history in being a form of
entertainment, occasionally
seasoned with education and
enlightenment, for the working
classes.
The original form of comics
was the newspaper strip.
Created during the last decade
of the 19th Century to serve
as circulation boosters in the
struggle for dominance between
rival newspaper syndicates,
the newspaper strip gradually
grew and evolved into an
original American art form.
It was, however, at this
stage, an art form that was
not responsible either to or
for its audience, but instead
was subservient to alien
powers: the newspaper
syndicates that controlled its
existence.
In ...
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Comics as an Essential American Art Form
Comics, as a mode of expression, as an art form, can be absolutely anything anyone wants it to be. As R. Crumb duly noted, “It’s only lines on paper.” And these lines may make letters and words, signs and symbols, and images of any sort and in any combination that can be conceived. The possibilities are literally endless.
The key to understanding comics, as Scott McCloud would have us do, is to locate the position of comics in our society and the function that arises thereof. Comics, as an American ... |
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