Call for submissions: STRIPBURGER #63
Stripburger,
30. december 2013
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STRIPBURGER #63 – bloc theme: RADIO
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Stripburger's editorial board has cooked up a new comicosity again: we've decided to dedicate the next issue's bloc to one of the first mass media that seemingly couldn't be farther from the comics medium: the radio.
It's younger than comics, but in spite of that its use and popularity quickly gained ground. Soon it became (and remained as well, until the TV came around) the main tool for mass (dis)information and propaganda, but performed really well as an education platform and a field of artistic creation. The radio signal was able to reach many remote and informationally challenged places, while writers and playwrights wrote radio plays and dramas especially tailored to suit this medium. Sure, radio is a distinctly auditory medium which you cannot enjoy in any other way, while the comics are a deaf medium that heavily relies on the visual. Nevertheless, if we take into account that comics too are able to inform, educate, entertain and aesthetically please the reader, then we can conclude that comics and the radio do no differ that much at all. Nowadays, radio hasn't become extinct because of the arriv