Journal of a studio working on graphic humor and cartoon stories related to local customs

Abstract

The author of this text gave lessons of graphic humour and comics dealing with local customs, in the classrooms at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid during a week in the 2010 summer. His report about these days shows a way to consider the teaching of the comic that places the information about the media and its own narrative tools in close-up and then, the mere plastic accuracy. This way of teaching also proposes specific exercises and alternation of new and traditional technologies. Giving the creative historical precedents and the sector publishing reality, is also a matter of importance from a professional point of view. At the same time, the author explains his theory on the humouristic speech, some considerations about the nature of the drawing and championed a very large definition of the two words: “cartoon story”.