Funny
Funny (English for "funny") is a generic term used in the German-speaking area for humorous comics that can have slapstick elements and gags , that is, funny, comical picture stories . An adventure comic with a funny part is called semi-funny . A story with strange alienation and animals as protagonists is called a Funny Animal Comic .
Many works by draftsmen at the École Marcinelle are referred to as Funnys. Examples of funnies are Mickey Mouse , Fix and Foxi and Asterix .
In English-speaking countries, the term “the funnies” is used as an abbreviation for the colloquial term “the funny papers” for comic strips (in English also cartoon strips ). After the term “comic” lost the element of the “ comic ” in the 1930s, the caricature and humorous varieties have since been referred to as “funny” or “funny comic”.
Individual evidence
- ^ Dietrich Grünewald : Comics. Walter de Gruyter, 2000, ISBN 3-11-093062-5 , p. 4.
- ↑ Key points of comic development taking into account early comics for children. In: Ute Oskamp: Bibliotherapeutic work with comics. LIT Verlag, Münster 2017, ISBN 3-643-13372-3 , p. 116.
- ↑ funnies. In: The Online Slang Dictionary.
- ↑ funny papers. In: The Online Slang Dictionary.
- ↑ Conceptual history of comics. In: Klaus Weimar (Hrsg.): Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft . Revision of the real dictionary of German literary history. Volume I: A-G. In collaboration with Harald Fricke / Klaus Grubmüller / Jan-Dirk Müller , Walter de Gruyter, 1997, ISBN 3-11-010896-8 , p. 312.