2.4.3. Place of CS in the society
Like the pop music or the detective novel, the CS knew the
biggest pain to acquire a real recognition. First considered like a simple tool
of entertainment intended to youth, the CS emancipated itself from its comic
statute to the means of a new artistic expression. Some authors contributed
extensively to this emancipation, such as Hugo Pratts (Henri Filippini
2005).
Let's notice however that, contrary to the movies (that
benefited the fight led by the film-makers), the CS remained extensively
unrecognized like fully-fledged art, and often view as the literature for
illiterates and pre-teenagers. One can wonder in what measure the success of
Franco-Belgian CS, Hergé (author of album Tintin) in head, didn't
contribute to this state of fact, the public having kept only the lucid line
and the humor, and forgotten the innumerable narrative possibilities achieved
by this branch (Wikipedia 2009).
This feeling seems however less strong today. Thus, Vincent
Bernière has written in 2008 that ``Defending the Japanese CS, or the CS
in general, is a final fight''. He expresses thus with confidence his feeling
that the time where the CS was considered like under-art is henceforth bygone
(Wikipedia, 2009).
Whereas the CS evokes firstly an art of painters, being sold
as the literature, more numerous are ties between movies and CS so much in the
technique of realization than by the artistic means put in action, that has
interpenetrated the two means of expression.
It is the same for the writing and the rhythm of history, the
realization of decors, the use of angles of view (panoramic, diving,
counter-diving, close plan, American plan... the drawing alone keeping the
possibility to show the character taking support or leading on the side of the
screen), mixing, lighting (with the electronic tools of creation or color setup
now common to the two arts), the limitation of the visual field by the screen
or the page, the vision 2D, the sound (subjective for the CS even though some
authors such Cosey make musical accompaniment suggestions) with voice ``off''
assigned behind either to the actor, ellipses, returns and other games on the
scale of the time,... But the drawer is master of his/her actors, doesn't need
the budget for thousands of characters or difficult decors, and can redo
his/her work without limit (Wikipedia 2009).
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