Graphic Humor: Give us our Daily Comic Strip
What are we going to do?
A course by Liniers , Cartoonist
Learn to make people think and laugh with comic strips
- Best seller Spanish with subtitles in English
- 95% positive reviews (482)
- 8708 students
About the video: What are we going to do?
Overview
“In this course, I will share observations and secrets about the laborious art of producing daily graphic humor and how to achieve surprise and humor in this task. We will see different techniques on the how and why of each decision at the time of sitting down to draw. When you finish you will be able to make your own graphic strip with original characters.”
In this video lesson Liniers addresses the topic: What are we going to do?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphic Humor: Give us our Daily Comic Strip. Learn to make people think and laugh with comic strips.
Partial transcription of the video
“In the course we will be talking about the story of the graphic strip and the graphic humor, especially of the daily strip. Let's talk about different types of humor. Different humorous types that can work. There will also be a job on the technique, the formal aspects of how to make a strip. Once you have absorbed the knowledge of the course you will be able to develop a daily strip. What I recommend is that they work with total freedom. The idea is not that you learn to draw as I draw in "Macanudo", but to find your own language, your own language and that you can express what what you nee...”
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Course summary for: Graphic Humor: Give us our Daily Comic Strip
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Comic, Drawing, Graphic Humor, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Ricardo Liniers Siri is a cartoonist from Argentina better known simply as Liniers, one of his last names. He began his career publishing fanzines before making the leap to the national press with the comic strip Bonjour in the newspaper Página 12. Since 2002, he's been publishing comics strips daily in La Nación and on a weekly basis for El País in Spain.
He has published more than 30 books in 17 countries around the world. His illustrations have been featured in many formats, from album covers for Kevin Johansen, Andrés Calamaro, and Marcelo Ezquiaga to covers for the prestigious magazine The New Yorker. His work has also been displayed in countries such as Brazil, Peru, Spain, and the United States in the 2018 Society of Illustrators exhibit.
When he's not drawing comics, he collaborates on projects with other artists and friends, such as live painting at Kevin Johansen concerts and an illustrated stand up show with illustrator Alberto Montt. He also cofounded the publishing house Editorial Común with his wife Angie.
As a culmination of his career, he won the Eisner Award (the "Illustrators' Oscar") and the Inkpot Award at the 2018 Comic-Con held in California.
- 95% positive reviews (482)
- 8708 students
- 13 lessons (1h 33m)
- 13 additional resources (0 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
- Level: Beginner
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