The law "n°49.956 of the 16 July 1949" which imposes censorship on comics which portray in any positive manner: "lying, stealing, debauchery, hatred, cowardliness, laziness, (and from 1954) ethnic prejudice" (Mouchart, B., 2003, p. 25).
Fluide Glaciale has since 1975 published comic series of pictures layed out and narrated as a comic book. As can be seen in this extract from Fluide Glaciale, Gay Friendly, Serie Or #30, 2005
This medium of comics does not really work for me because of the fact that it's just "too real". Like many other entertainment media, comic books are there to take people away from their daily lifes to another person's or even to magical fantasy lands.
My vision of a cross media comic book is further from reality. Drawing via a graphic tablet on digital photos is a way of putting together comic books which is actually extremly appealing to me. Although it has to be done in a specific way: picture background and cartoon characters. I cannot bare the idea of the opposite. It has been done many times, and mainly through the 1988 famous movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit (memorable not only because of its cross media effects but also for being the only Warner Brothers and Disney collaboration). This can also be seen in the Disney classic Mary Poppins when the main characters go into a fantasy picture where all the special effects were cartoons.
I don't think anyone can compete, even nowadays, with Roger Rabbit.
My adaptation of this technique, using only Adobe Photoshop and a graphics tablet gives this:
This is far from being as legendary as Roger Rabbit, but the harshness of reality against the thick clumbsy lines of my novice graphics tablet brush strokes create a contrast which is greatly inspired from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Like the movie, this brings cartoon characters to our world, allowing us to identify with them, while keeping a safe distance with fantasy.
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