programming with grawlixes #4

here's a copy of Programming with Grawlixes #4 (Grawlixes are the little scribbles and sometimes asemic writings that appear in cartoons when a character runs into an unexpected event).

Programming with Grawlixes#4 takes a closer look at the historical relation between early modernist abstract art and comics with Grawlixes. Takes a first step towards applying game theory to cartoons with Grawlixes. Looks at Brain Functions in relation with Grawlixes. And also includes some pages on the meaning of time in cartoons with Grawlixes. Feel free to comment.

Grawlixes and the movies; Earl Hurd, 1917

 Bobby Bumps' Fourth (Earl Hurd, 1917) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQCv-O3-QDY&index=14&list=PLH3kk91FHIVCDRQSrOwNcTjxzQ19784r7

Polly wants a cracker, but the expected cracker turns out to be a firecracker.
Grawlixes appear as stars, swirls and censorded (blanked) curses.

A silent film.

Grawlixes like stars and spirals do not replace sound. (see; programming with grawlixes).
However;
Most Grawlixes seem to have disappeared from the movies with the introduction of sound.

therefore it is likely that;

A. Grawlixes must have some relation with language
B. But not with spoken language

http://the-euclideanfly.blogspot.nl/search/label/grawlixes%20and%20the%20movies

Grawlixes and the Spiritual in Art

I just finished Programming with Grawlixes #3
Grawlixes and the Spiritual in Art
You can read it online here;
http://issuu.com/ghoi4wt5yhwli8/docs/grawlixes_marcvanelburg_issuu

It is often said that the period of Pop-art in the 1950’s and 60’s was also the period that unified comics and art.
This zine suggests a different relation;
Just like Humans do not come from apes but descend from a common ancestor, comics and early modernist art likewise share a common ancestor.


by
http://marcvanelburg.blogspot.nl/
see also;
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/het-saptrajekt/
 https://www.youtube.com/user/4398574291811/videos
 http://tellab.home.xs4all.nl/

Programming with Grawlixes 2/ asemic writing in comics.

here's part two of my series on grawlixes and non objective drawing.

http://issuu.com/ghoi4wt5yhwli8/docs/how_grawlixes_structured_comix

While I was working on this  I stumbled on some cartoons with asemic writing.
I think it is quite funny to see the different ways they are used to convey meaning.

Asemic writing as ‘bird sounds’.

 (peanuts; Charles M.Schulz)

Asemic writing as an interpretation of foreign language that the character can’t understand.

Bringing up father; George Mcmanus (1927)

 Asemic writing as alien language,
 apparently  an unknown frequency  for a different type of receptor

Mickey Mouse and Eega Beeva; Bill Wash and Floyd Gottfredson (1947)

Asemic writing as an indicator for brain damage, possibly in the brocca area, maybe Wernicke's aphasia where a person speaks normally but uses random or invented words; leaves out key words; substitutes words or verb tenses, pronouns, or prepositions; and utters sentences that do not make sense. (wikipedia)

Alley oop; V.T.Hamlin (1973)




by
http://marcvanelburg.blogspot.nl/
see also;
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/het-saptrajekt/
 https://www.youtube.com/user/4398574291811/videos
 http://tellab.home.xs4all.nl/