Lab+5+-+Comics+and+Representation

The comic strip chosen is from explosm a funny web comic that pushes its art capability through stick figures. Contrasting to XKCD the content is simple, random and sometimes goes for a shock out of the user. The artists usually change up design of the frame, color and conventional methods that most comic strips seem to fall static to.

The pixel color is conventional RGB, clean, and black lined border. The simple approach and the white background immediately make the user comfortable and identify with the stick figures dilemmas or jokes.
 * __Color__**

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In this example you can see that they probably worked with a lower resolution when applied to the site it lost its clean look and look gritty and pixilated. This was the case for most of the earlier ones, as around this time it may have not been conveyed to the highest resolution of color. The color does not change much but the quality does.

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In this example we see that the characters are not so statically colored, it changes from time to time, and the characters can be shaded sound and color work together to create a scene. Very rarely will the characters be changed but when a new character is introduced they are drawn differently to show that they are only in this frame for this instance. The colors usually vary with them and the color is smooth and bordered like most conventional comics. The color is very simple this allows for when more color is introduced the user is feeling like they are getting more out of the comic, because usually its just a white background and same colored characters.


 * __Strips__**

The comics are laid out in strips very rarely do frames exceed the length of 3-4 frames. They fit the daily requirements for frequent web users hoping to get a quick joke in a day. (McCloud 5). This is ideal because the site is set up to offer quick puns and daily jokes.


 * __Choice of frame__**

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In this scene we can see that the choice of frame has changed, sometimes this occurs and when it does it is usually very creative and pushes the limits of stick figures and boxes. Sometimes they will have a box that will fall off from the side or break open as if the comic strip is bleeding out into the web page. This choice of frame shows an instance in which you must scroll to see the ending. Thus the choice of frame is endless, because it is web comic we can see that the capabilities on the internet exceed what could be delivered on normal print. This is what makes the comic so unique, as frames extend pages, are moved around, separated or tampered with it shows a frames capability. Sequentially it adds effect to what happens between frames or on the final frames.