The early twentieth century bore witness not only to the emergence of the ‘standalone’ printed comic book, but also to the birth of the animated film. In many ways, comics have often been associated with their moving image counterparts, as…
Animation & the Comic Book
Sin City: When Comics and Film Collide
by Veronique Sina • November 21, 2016 • 4 Comments
In general, comic book to film adaptations may be defined as adaptations of drawn comic strips and comic book series for the medium of film (Marschall 2002: 103). As this definition implies, there are two basic aspects that seem to…
Deterrent Versus Disclosure: The ‘No Way’ Campaign Comic and Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island
by Nina Mickwitz • November 14, 2016 • 0 Comments
Lukas Schrank’s animated short, Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island (2015), uses recorded mobile phone conversations as both source and sound track, to tell the stories of two detainees in one of the Australian government’s notorious offshore refugee camps. This…