Line #37 Webcomic/ComMedia


1	Communication Media Comic (shortened to Commedia, a reference to the renaissance play CommediaDellArte) work-in-progress webcomic made by Tropers/MasterJayAM, [[WriteWhatYouKnow who happened to be a mass communications major]], the series focuses on the AnthropomorphicPersonifications of media channels, drawing story lines and gags from the history of the media and the real-life relationships and issues faced by media practitioners today. A series with over 30 characters representing a media format or an associated technology or industry. A partial list is available [[http://joeabuy1000.deviantart.com/#/d4oie1b here]].
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3	The pitch emerged on mid-2010 as an edutainment series of single-shot cartoons and comics. Much of the original sketches were finished between September and October. The comic itself along with a considerable amount of sketches is posted on Website/DeviantArt. Segments of the comic are published on [[http://communicationmediacomic.tumblr.com/ Tumblr]].
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5	Its premise is loosely inspired by Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers and other similar comics. It is heavily influenced by the author's own time spent at [[SugarWiki/TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife TV Tropes]]. [[FollowTheLeader The author wanted to give]] AnthropomorphicPersonifications a shot and looked for one that the people at Website/DeviantArt haven't already tried.
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7	The media formats featured in the comics so far include the following, sorted according to the technologies involved.Such relations are interpreted to mean familial relationships through blood, adoption, or marriage.
8	* The Prints: Literature, Mail, Print Journalism [[OverlyLongName and Periodical Publishing]]/Journalism, Comics, Magazine Publishing, Printmaking, Writing
9	* The Audio-Visuals: Television, Video, Recording Industry, Music Video, Satellite Communications, Cable
10	* The Films: Cinema, Photography, Animation
11	* The Digitals: Internet, Computer Technology, Arpanet, Podcast and Mobile, Intranet, Video Games, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Satellite Communications]]
12	* The Telegraphs: [[ShapedLikeItself Telegraphy]], Telecommunications, Radio, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Internet]]
13	* The Spatials: Art, Music, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Comics, Animation]], Cartography, Graphic Design, Dance
14	* Theatre and Puppetry
15	* The Motives: Advertising, Propaganda, Public Relations
16	* Tabletop Games
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18	As seen previously, there's an overlap with some media formats and technologies that can fit more than two categories.
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20	Many more characters may come as the comic progresses.
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22	It can be found [[http://joeabuy1000.deviantart.com/gallery/25951077 here.]] The majority of the tropes present are [[AllThereInTheManual available on the profiles and sketches.]] Now has a WIP [[Characters/ComMedia character sheet]].
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24	Not to be confused with [[Literature/TheDivineComedy a certain other Commedia]].
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26	!!This series contains examples of:
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28	%%* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Well, most of it anyways.
29	* ArtEvolution: The comic took on a less sketchy format c. 2016.
30	%%* ArtShift: Constantly. The first page and second page have this in spades.
31	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: A recurring theme is this, and its occasional subversion.
32	%%* AnthropomorphicPersonification
33	* BigBrotherMentor: Many of the older media channels tend to be this toward younger media channels, particularly siblings.
34	** Television and Video are said to be inseparable.
35	** Literature is this to Journalism, but not so much to his other siblings.
36	* ExecutiveMeddling: The source of many gags in this series. TV tends to show this the most.
37	* GenerationXerox: Literature and his son, Comics, look remarkably alike. Telegraphy and Internet also qualify to an extent.
38	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: All of the characters will end up with jerkass moments. Thus, many of them would fit this trope.
39	* NewMediaAreEvil: [[TeensAreMonsters Internet]], who is basically acts like a troll.
40	* NoFourthWall: Internet [[LampshadeHanging gives the artist an earful]] [[SelfDeprecation for being a sloppy artist]]; on the first page, no less.
41	* OldMediaAreEvil: A recurring theme, although they qualify more like "old media are jerkasses" more than anything.
42	* OlderThanTheyLook: Most of the media channels invented prior to the 19th Century have this. Comic is an egregious offender; he looks like an EmoTeen, but is physically in his 20s and is older than Television.
43	* SiblingYinYang: There are blood siblings in this series of media channels that share a common history or technology. Therefore, their differences are TruthInTelevision:
44	** The Film Siblings (Cinema and Photography); one likes movement, the other stillness. Although they're amicable, they're not close.
45	** The Prints (Literature and Print Journalism) are a more amiable pair of brothers. One is sedentary, the other adventurous.
46	** Magazine and Print Journalism have a FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling dynamic.
47	** [[PolarOppositeTwins Internet and Intranet]]. The former is an extroverted {{Jerkass}} and the other is a [[{{Hikkikomori}} shut-in]].
48	* ShoutOut: Given the nature of the series, this will more or less be inevitable.
49	* TakeThat: Quite a bit really. Mainly toward ExecutiveMeddling and other media pet peeves.
50	* VisualPun: [[http://joeabuy1000.deviantart.com/art/A-Wall-Between-Us-260167974?q=gallery%3Ajoeabuy1000%2F25951077&qo=0 Internet is kept at bay by]] [[LiteralMetaphor a firewall.]]

Context Webcomic / ComMedia