“Tin-Can Tommy The Clockwork Boy”: A case study in incompleteness for humorous effect in British children’s comics of the 1930s
This article explores the format and construct of longer humorous comics strips through the close analysis of “Tin-Can Tommy The Clockwork Boy” from D C Thomson’s The Beano Comic, a publication aimed at children and launched in 1938. This study of one specific strip argues that the use a seriality s...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:interfaces_3472 https://doi.org/10.4000/interfaces.3472 urn:doi:10.4000/interfaces.3472 en https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/3472 2022-01-21T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/h4i6 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Tin-Can Tommy The Clockwork Boy”: A case study in incompleteness for humorous effect in British children’s comics of the 1930s Interfaces Université Bourgogne Europe info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2647-6754 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1164-6225 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces Pursall, Dona sérialité gag objectivation subjectivée accroches savoir-faire personnages hybrides bonhomme slapstick Pinocchio Bushmiller (Ernie) seriality gag strips subjectivized objectivation catch-phrase knowingness hybrid characters matchstick-men slapstick Pinocchio Bushmiller (Ernie) This article explores the format and construct of longer humorous comics strips through the close analysis of “Tin-Can Tommy The Clockwork Boy” from D C Thomson’s The Beano Comic, a publication aimed at children and launched in 1938. This study of one specific strip argues that the use a seriality somewhere between open-ended and discontinuous, continual fluctuations between flat and round characterisation and a style wavering between completeness and expressivity constructs an aesthetic of incompleteness which is essentiel in the creation of humour. Following investigation of the ways in which this particular format constructs funniness as a process of continual negotiation, specifically through the use of exaggeration, asymmetry, dissatisfaction and imbalance, the article concludes that a quality of unfinished-ness is integral to the relationship these comics create with their readers, and therefore fundamental to laughter. Cet article explore le format et la construction de bandes dessinées humoristiques dans The Beano, publication pour la jeunesse lancée en 1938, à travers la lecture rapprochée de "Tin-Can Tommy The Clockwork Boy". Cette analyse d'un titre avance que la tension sérielle entre ouverture et discontinuité, les fluctuations continues entre personnages ‘simples’ (flats) et ‘complexes’ (round) participent d'une esthétique de l'inachevé au service d'un propos humoristique. L'article examine ce rapport entre format et humour par l'étude du processus de négociation continue et de l'usage de l'exagération, de l'asymétrie, de l'insatisfaction et du déséquilibre, et sur cette base propose que cette donnée de l'inachevé constitue un aspect essentiel de la relation que ces bandes dessinées créent avec leurs lecteurs, et donc fondamental pour la construction de l’humour. |
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sérialité gag objectivation subjectivée accroches savoir-faire personnages hybrides bonhomme slapstick Pinocchio Bushmiller (Ernie) seriality gag strips subjectivized objectivation catch-phrase knowingness hybrid characters matchstick-men slapstick Pinocchio Bushmiller (Ernie) |
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This article explores the format and construct of longer humorous comics strips through the close analysis of “Tin-Can Tommy The Clockwork Boy” from D C Thomson’s The Beano Comic, a publication aimed at children and launched in 1938. This study of one specific strip argues that the use a seriality somewhere between open-ended and discontinuous, continual fluctuations between flat and round characterisation and a style wavering between completeness and expressivity constructs an aesthetic of incompleteness which is essentiel in the creation of humour. Following investigation of the ways in which this particular format constructs funniness as a process of continual negotiation, specifically through the use of exaggeration, asymmetry, dissatisfaction and imbalance, the article concludes that a quality of unfinished-ness is integral to the relationship these comics create with their readers, and therefore fundamental to laughter. |
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“Tin-Can Tommy The Clockwork Boy”: A case study in incompleteness for humorous effect in British children’s comics of the 1930s |
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