Unit 33 Comics

Task 1

Fantagraphics Research

When was Fantagraphics founded and by who?
In 1976 by co-founder and co-publisher Gary Groth and co-founder Mike Catron

In what city are Fantagraphics based and what is different about their headquarters?
The company is based is it's Seattle HeadQuarters and Snohonmish County of Sultan, more specifically an isolated stretch of forest located there. What is different is that they have an armoury that includes a 9mm pistol, a 10mm pistol, a rifle with a telescopic scope, a .44 magnum, .45 magnum, .347 magnum, a 12-gauge shotgun, bombs and a few bayonet knives, so you know, standard home security stuff. As their company grew so did their arsenal, much to the concern of the state police. The Headquarters is based in basically a house, very casual.

What is their mission statement?
The aim has remained the same throughout the companies history and that is 'Our love is to publish great
cartooning, in whatever form that takes". To be the publisher of the world's greatest cartoonists.

What different kinds of products do Fantagraphics publish? i.e. graphic novels? Comic Strips? Deluxe Editions?
Fantagraphics publish alternative comics, classic comic strips anthrologies, graphic novels and the adult-oriented Eros Comix imprint.

Infogram

Task 2

Genre Grid

Content and Style

Charles Burns' "Robot Love" follows Chester Gould's visual style by being in black and white and having very strange grotesque characters.   

                                                                                                                                                        Robot Love                                                                                               Dick Tracy

The narrative influence from Chester Gould's "Dick Tracy" is also found in Charles Burns "Robot Love" because the main character in both comics are a detective and the main focus of the story is the cases they solve. Also the locations used and the quite frankly disturbing themes used in the comics. 
      Robot Love                                                                                              Dick Tracy

 






Meaning

Robot love does have a dark tone, as it is about humans who what to alter themselves into robots, as in to remove everything that made them human and replace it with robot parts which is similar to the short comic in the video which was called "Big Baby".


Target Audience

The target audience for Charles Burns' "Robot Love" I think would be 18-25 year old males because of the more adult themes like swearing and because of the violence would stereotypically appeal to males more. I think Charles Burns has achieved this if it was his aim.


Characters 

The characters in Charles Burns' "Robot love" are similar to the ones in "Big Baby" because the main characters have featureless almost alien faces. El Borbah really only has this kind of face because he wears a Mexican wrestler's mask all the time so he kind of has a reason not to have much of a face. 



Task 3

Character Profiles

Detectives
Danny McCloud		Russell Bailey		Lucy Argo
23	Male	23	Male	21	Female
Characteristics Incredibly and compassionate to those they care about, hates people going out of their to help him, also hates asking for help.		Characteristics Very tough on the outside bit of a softie on the inside, very caring and compassionate about those they care about.		Characteristics Doesn’t show emotions well, introvert, wants everyone to think they hate attention but actually really likes it.
Motivations To make their city a better place for everyone except criminals. To become the world's greatest detective		Motivations To make their city a better place for everyone except criminals.		Motivations To make their city a better place for everyone except criminals.
Abilities Great driving skills, excellent at parkour, great detective skills		Abilities Stupidly strong, excels at hand-to-hand combat, great detective skills		Abilities Great driving skills, Brilliant mechanic skills, great detective skills

Task 4

Character Design

Task 6

Pitch Proposal

Title: [sleepwalkers]: Dangerous Games
Format: A full colour comic split up into multiple parts.	Genre:  Crime, action and drama
Synopsis: A year before joining Proteus Vae, we follow Police Detective Danny McCloud and his partner Russell Bailey solves their greatest case yet. A string of recent killings have been linked to be carried out by one psychopath. With the help of Lucy Aygo, McCloud and Bailey work together to bring this psychopath to justice, will they succeed, or will the psycho get away without a trace?

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Intellectual Property: [sleepwalkers] (My own original IP, do not steal).

Language: English, strong adult language used (damn, dammit, goddammit etcetera etcetera.)

Drugs: No actual drugs used, references to drugs.

Sex: Sexual Themes used.

Violence: Loads of bloody violence.

Imitable Behaviour: Shown as unrealistic enough to perform rated at a 15+ anyways.

Discrimination: None whatsoever.

Task 7

Pen Portrait

Task 8

Character Profiles

Character 1

Name: Danny McCloud

Age: 23

Height: 5’8”

Loves: Driving, parkour, his girlfriend, his job, his car, cars in general and the city he lives in

Hates: Being short, someone else driving, scorpions, being asleep to long and everyone who is on the wrong side of the law

Most Prized Possession: His 2009 Aston Martin One-77, the last gift from his parents and one of two things that he can really remember them by the other being his Dad’s watch.

Guilty pleasure: Speeding, literally a guilty pleasure, and other reckless driving things, but they have the skill to back it up`

Deepest Secret: he is a vigilante by night called Vigilant.

How They See Themselves: As being cross between Sherlock and Batman.

How Others See Them: A great friend, partner and detective.

Character 2

Name: Russell Bailey

Age: 23

Height: 6’5”

Loves: His wife, hand-to-hand combat, to show-off, his job and the city he lives.

Hates: violence against women, being mocked for his size, people who smoke, driving and everyone who is on the wrong side of the law.

Most Prized Possession: His dad’s leather jacket that is still in pristine condition despite the amount he wears it.

Guilty Pleasure: Wants every criminal he catches to fight back just so he can beat them up

Deepest Secret: Has a real soft spot for animals, it’s almost his weakness.

How They See Themselves: As being a cross between Sherlock and Daredevil without being blind

How Others See Them: A great friend, husband and detective

Character 3

Name: Lucina “Lucy” Argo

Age: 21

Height: 5’10”

Loves: Driving, fixing up cars, vintage cars and cars in general her job and the city she lives in.

Hates: Being single, being told what to do and being spoken down to purely because she is a young female.

Most Prized Possession: Her 1981 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, a car she restored with her Dad.

Guilty Pleasure: Tinkering with cars and gadgets.

Deepest Secret: Has a thing for Danny but doesn’t want to interfere with their current relationship. Hides it with the banter with Russell

How They See Themselves: Being a great mechanic and detective.

How Others See Them: A great friend, driver and detective.

Task 9


Script

Task 10

Breakdown

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