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[Dr Ivo G Bombastus]

Jun 12, 2018 7:38:55 GMT Monkey_Feyerabend said:

By the way, I advise everyone to read McCloud's Understanding Comics. It's the best book on comics...and it's a comic! It really is an astonishing reading, if you are into comics as a reader and/or a creator.

Hey, my high school library had that book!

[Orora]

Jun 12, 2018 7:38:55 GMT Monkey_Feyerabend said:

Jun 11, 2018 21:40:13 GMT Orora said:

You got that right. At least, I feel the 80s-ness adds to the charm.
It is quite interesting to see Goofy trying to look "urban" by... dressing up in denim, black-leather-jacket with Elvis hair and using French 80s slang to sound "tough".

You may find it charming, but most of potential readers will find just hard to connect with it, hence harder to identify unconsciously with the characters.

It's a theoretical and technical aspect of comics, represented by Scott McCloud "triangle"



 The more a character is on the right side of the basis (the side marked with "meaning") the more universal it is. Mickey is strongly on the right, as you can see. By dressing him in a iconic way (red pants with yellow buttons) or with a generic minimalist dressing (generic pants and a generic shirt which is so undefined one cannot even what kind of  shirt it is) we reinforce his position on the "meaning side", hence reinforce the universality of the character.
If you dress Mickey realistically (on a daily basis, not for special occasions like stories in costumes etc...) then you make him go a bit more to the left of the basis of the triangle, diminishing the number of people that can unconsciously identify with him.



By the way, I advise everyone to read McCloud's Understanding Comics. It's the best book on comics...and it's a comic! It really is an astonishing reading, if you are into comics as a reader and/or a creator.

Yeah, I have these Scott McCloud's books. In this diagram, his point was more that, drawing a character simpler and with less details makes it more accessible.

I am biased (as in, my own opinion) towards Mickey dressing more realistically and keeping his iconic red shorts for special occasions, like the Italians do (who give him shirt-pants or a noir detective look) as I see him as a more "grounded" and "serious" hero than Donald who keeps his iconic sailor suit almost constantly (even the Italians).
And also, I enjoy a nice period piece. The 80s are popular nowadays for a reason.

But if Mickey has to wear his iconic red shorts, pleaaaase don't make his eyes tiny and so disconnected from his "hairline" that it seems he doesn't have eyebrows (which makes him look "soulless")... or just give him regular eyebrows.