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.]] |
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