Graphic Humor: Give us our Daily Comic Strip
Different humorous types
A course by Liniers , Cartoonist
Learn to make people think and laugh with comic strips
- Best seller Spanish with subtitles in English
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About the video: Different humorous types
Overview
“Now let's do an analysis of some humor styles. We will see how with different styles of strokes we can define a style of humor or another. We will also see how you can tell a complex subject using black humor, for example. Then we will talk about post-humor or also called "no joke", which is built based on surprise. Then I'll tell you how I build political humor and how to do it from ideas more than from politicians. And how to try a world in our cartoon that allows us freedom, not only so that it does not run out soon, but so that it does not bore us.”
In this video lesson Liniers addresses the topic: Different humorous types, 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
“Now let's talk about the types of humor. There are several different types of humor. I like all types of humor. I like Chaplin and Monty Python, I like Olmedo, Alfredo Casero, I like that people have made me laugh at some point in my life. To anyone who makes me laugh I'll have some thanks. And all the people who made me laugh me laugh in a different way. Sean Ren and Stimpy or The Simspon or whatever. When I started thinking the strip "Macanudo", including "Bonjour", the previous strip, did not want to marry me with a kind of humor and I did not want to do a single type of strip. I think t...”
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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.
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