Is his contraption making the dogs go wild? Perhaps it is emitting a particular pitch much like a dog whistle. As is, we could make a variety of guesses as to what’s going on. ![]() Here we see a single panel (at first, we will exclude the captain at the bottom from our reading), with dogs running around, repeatedly exclaiming, “Hey!” In the foreground, we have a man who appears to be a scientist wearing some sort of electrical contraption on his head. But the key word in the definition is “juxtaposed” In The Far Side, the images are not juxtaposed because there is only one image. ![]() ![]() Is this the best definition? Probably not, but it isn’t half bad either. “Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.” But is this fair? Perhaps under the strict definitions of sequential art… He expels single panel works, for instance comics found in the New Yorker or works akin to The Far Side. ![]() If it is just one image, is it a comic? Scott McCloud, a famous cartoonist and comic scholar, says no.
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