Doctor Cat comic strip analysis

(Doctor Cat comic)

I've read comic's ever since I was a little girl. I was always interested in the ideas of superhero's and extreme battles that no human could ever do without snapping their backs in half. Even now I love reading comics, though now I mostly read manga and plenty of webcomics (one for example is the one shown above). The comic above in using the terms I learned, the images are definitely more iconic than realistic. The faces are simplified to show a more cartoonish. I would think it would have been difficult to have drawn realistic images of Doctor Cat, and the minor human characters and the humor involved with a cat who is a doctor. The simplified cat also becomes a cute icon, which I doubt would be as cute if the cat looked realistic. I believe that what the artist used in transitions, was mainly action-to-action and subject-to-subject. In this strip the text and the words work together to show Doctor Cat's problem and insecurities of being a cat who is a doctor and is unable to use hands to do a surgery, however it also shows his resolve to prove those in his past wrong. The text is also simplified almost in an iconic way so it doesn't seem too show-offy. The text also tells the story of this page.

Hypermediacy

In Bolter and Grusin’s chapter Remediation: Understanding the New Media they consider remixing (called hypermedia) to be the artist’s way of defining a space through the disposition and interplay of forms that have been detached from their original context and then recombined, while the consider remediation to be the defining characteristic of the new digital media by identifying a media in a different spectrum; digital. Now that is a complete difference to Walter Benjamin in our previous readings, who saw the idea of media being reused and mass produced  as a negative (but unfortunately for him a necessary) thing. Bolter and Grusin however see it as a positive connotation and a way to express to the audiences that are consumed by hypermedia. They also differ from their belief. Benjamin believed that an audience needed to take in the art work and fast paced moving art didn’t affect the audience. Bolter and Grusin believed that because of the population and their need to get things done, that they want their art to affect them quickly. And I agree with Bolter and Grusin. We live in a face paced society where the time to slow down is very rare in a person’s life. As much as I would like to “lose myself in a painting” society won’t let me.