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Thanks! switchingbetweentheshelves: I think they’re just called motion lines, or movement lines. But it’s important to know the language when drawing, because if you get it wrong, you might get thighs with a good idea (straight lines fanning radially out semi-perpendicular to the object can mean an idea), or a lightbulb that smells funny (if your semi-perpendicular lines are wiggly, they mean an odor).  Zigzags would mean a buzzing noise, or an electric shock.  It’s not perfect, though; both zigzags and straight (short) radial lines can mean pain. My favorite of these line symbols, though, was the popped bubble (or maybe a very airy asterisk) seen in Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared over the head similar to an idea lightbulb, and indicated that one had just realized something, too late.   Also, I love, in this picture, the area rug and remote control, which (to me) suggest this is happening right on the coffee table. Under the remote, papers, or maybe a book.  I wonder what they say. 333images: Blllllllleeeeaaaaauuuuggghh.  Oooooff. So now I have a handful of new themes to work with, but I want to have a little palate cleanser of sub boys… As I understand it, comic artists have a whole jargon in which there’s a name for those lines that indicate his thighs and hands are trembling.  Anyone know that word?

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switchingbetweentheshelves:

I think they’re just called motion lines, or movement lines.

But it’s important to know the language when drawing, because if you get it wrong, you might get thighs with a good idea (straight lines fanning radially out semi-perpendicular to the object can mean an idea), or a lightbulb that smells funny (if your semi-perpendicular lines are wiggly, they mean an odor).  Zigzags would mean a buzzing noise, or an electric shock.  It’s not perfect, though; both zigzags and straight (short) radial lines can mean pain.

My favorite of these line symbols, though, was the popped bubble (or maybe a very airy asterisk) seen in Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared over the head similar to an idea lightbulb, and indicated that one had just realized something, too late.  

Also, I love, in this picture, the area rug and remote control, which (to me) suggest this is happening right on the coffee table. Under the remote, papers, or maybe a book.  I wonder what they say.

333images:

Blllllllleeeeaaaaauuuuggghh.  Oooooff.

So now I have a handful of new themes to work with, but I want to have a little palate cleanser of sub boys…

As I understand it, comic artists have a whole jargon in which there’s a name for those lines that indicate his thighs and hands are trembling.  Anyone know that word?

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10 February 2012 • reblog: spankingtushnthegiblets • male sub anal beads anus welts pencil comic comics 2000s blindfold gag bondage

I used to read comics.  Sometimes I still do. One thing that always bothered me about comic books was how the covers would pose what I considered to be a narrative challenge: the hero is about to be shot, twice, in like 1/1000 of a second.  And then the KKK-Nazi-cult leader dude will impale the virginal heroine with his stiff, quivering sword.  It’s inescapable.  How will they survive? And then, inside the comic itself, this setup never actually happens, so the author doesn’t have to solve the problem on the cover. Fucking A, man.

I used to read comics.  Sometimes I still do.

One thing that always bothered me about comic books was how the covers would pose what I considered to be a narrative challenge: the hero is about to be shot, twice, in like 1/1000 of a second.  And then the KKK-Nazi-cult leader dude will impale the virginal heroine with his stiff, quivering sword.  It’s inescapable.  How will they survive?

And then, inside the comic itself, this setup never actually happens, so the author doesn’t have to solve the problem on the cover.

Fucking A, man.

5 November 2011 • 1940s comics nazis sword weapons virginity sacrifice pointy hoods guns spears female sub bondage rope kneeling clothed sub bound to a post muscles mf peril

Despite the title, this isn’t exactly about virginity.  Wertham’s 1954 tract against comic books resulted in congressional investigations and ultimately the Comics Code Authority, one of the most absurd censorship organizations that has ever existed in the US.  The CCA banned whole genres, such as horror, as well as banning such morally dubious images as werewolves, vampires, ghouls, corrupt politicians, sympathetic or glamorous villains, villains who do not get caught and punished, cannibalism, rape, nudity, suggestive postures, lurid, unsavory, and gruesome images.  Oh, and sexual perversion….Wertham was one of the early critics of Wonder Woman’s bondage kink. Another subtext of the code was that the heroes had to be white.  This came out quickly in EC Comics’ story “Judgment Day”, which essentially ended their business, leaving only Mad Magazine. (via schundundschmutz, mudwerks)

Despite the title, this isn’t exactly about virginity.  Wertham’s 1954 tract against comic books resulted in congressional investigations and ultimately the Comics Code Authority, one of the most absurd censorship organizations that has ever existed in the US.  The CCA banned whole genres, such as horror, as well as banning such morally dubious images as werewolves, vampires, ghouls, corrupt politicians, sympathetic or glamorous villains, villains who do not get caught and punished, cannibalism, rape, nudity, suggestive postures, lurid, unsavory, and gruesome images.  Oh, and sexual perversion….Wertham was one of the early critics of Wonder Woman’s bondage kink.

Another subtext of the code was that the heroes had to be white.  This came out quickly in EC Comics’ story “Judgment Day”, which essentially ended their business, leaving only Mad Magazine.

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1 November 2011 • reblog: mudwerks • books 1950s comics censorship wonder woman