Word: comical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other than pre-frosh) and roommates of the cast. Why was it that the latest Gilbert & Sullivan production did not seem to appeal to the college-aged crowd? Was it that so many other plays and parties were happening that night as well? Was it the idea of a comic British play first performed in 1877 that turned of most theater-goers...
...would be easy to argue that Roy Lichtenstein has never made an original image. Rather he has made images of images for 35 years, whether literal copies of comic book cells or appropriations of Monet and Pollock, all executed in his signature Benday dots. Yet although one might think this persistent stylistic vision would eventually grow boring, his new Landscapes in the Chinese Style prove otherwise...
...striking canvases, where tiny scholars and fishing boats cower under misty, mountains. In Yellow Cliffs, three Benday dot cliff faces drop steeply from the painting's upper left corner. At the bottom, Lichtenstein's fluid, black contour describes an undulating boulder. This black outline, originally taken from comic books, contains a small patch of red parallel lines, which were used to denote shading in the half-tone prints of newspapers and magazines...
Since then, it has become an established tradition to bring manga, or comic magazines, to animation. Anime includes science-fiction like mecha (space sagas with robot war machines), dungeons-and-dragons-type fantasy, police/detective series, high school dramas and comedies...
Anime masterpieces are known and loved throughout the Japanese population. Toys, silverware, stationery and T-shirts of the most popular anime characters abound in Japanese stores. Reading manga, the telephone-book-sized comic strips which anime is based on, is a national preoccupation. The anime which is not yet accepted in Japan is just a reflection of its avant-garde nature. The times will probably catch up with anime, not the other way around...