Comic Book Saturday
This was a Chibi comic (a specific look to the art, very rounded, short, and a child-like look to the characters). Aang wakes up, and is informed, a lot of times, by Sokka's notes not to go out of the house, but he does anyway, but then all his friends seem to be mad at him. It's such a cute book, even with the slightly obvious ending.
The whole unfreezing day thing is a really cool solution to not knowing your own birthday, and, then… the poor cabbage man. This was such a fun read. I hope that they do more Chibi comics in this universe for sure!
You may like this book If you Liked: Avatar: The Last Airbender by Gene Leun Yang, or The Coldfire Curse by Jordan Quinn
Aang's Unfreezing Day by Kelly Leigh Miller
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Review: Avatar: The Last Airbender Chibis Vol. 1: Aang's Unfreezing Day
Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender ChibisWriter: Kelly Leigh MillerArtist: Diana SimPublisher: Dark Horse BooksReleased: December 7, 2021
Oh, my goodness. Did you know there’s a chibi version of Avatar: The Last Airbender? Because I certainly didn’t! Where has this been all of my life?! Let’s dive into Avatar: The Last Airbender Chibis Vol. 1: Aang’s Unfreezing…
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culture tips for writing asian settings: calligraphy (pt ii)
in my last post i talked about calligraphy more generally, but here i want to talk about the calligraphy from atla. all of the calligraphy from the show is written by dr siu-leung lee and i'll be using the artbook as my reference.
if you're a writer or artist approaching written chinese, you can think about how script and handwriting might tell us something about a character. dr lee certainly did, and he even tailored writing styles to who he thought might've been writing that text: "If it were a highly cultured royal attendant, he would use a refined, elegant style, but if it were a low-level clerk, he would use a more pedestrian handwriting style."
first thing: modern standard chinese coming out of mainland china uses simplified chinese. this system was developed in the mid-20th century, so it's pretty anachronistic to use this for atla. instead, you should be using traditional chinese as dr lee does (which is still used in hong kong, taiwan, and many diasporic communities). i usually use google translate to switch between the systems.
note the use of simplified 门 (door) instead of the traditional 門 from the aang's unfreezing day comic.
next i'm going to take aang's wanted poster as an example of three different chinese scripts we see in the show. the "title" is in clerical script, the body of the text is in regular script, and the seal is in seal script.
regular script is the standard way you'd learn how to write chinese nowadays. you can see (as i mentioned in part i) how the text is meant to be read up -> down, then right -> left.
clerical script is characterised by fairly compact shapes and a kind of "roundness", and was developed in the late warring states period. this is the script used for the chinese title of the show! in the context of atla, it implies to me that the writer has more specialised calligraphic training than the average person (who, if they can write, would be using regular script). you can compare the difference in styles for the same words between clerical (L) and regular (R):
seal script is the most archaic form of chinese on display; this one wouldn't have been written by the calligrapher, but carved into a seal by a craftsperson and then stamped onto the page.
what's also really interesting is dr lee implies a difference in script between the nations. some of the characters used to write water tribe-related concepts:
this is an adapted form of oracle bone script, the one of the earliest forms of chinese writing. this fascinated me because this script was—as the name suggests—written on bone, and perhaps reflects something about the material of what the water tribes were using to write. (you can input modern characters into this website to see examples of their older forms.)
finally, some cool differences in handwriting! this is from the fire day festival poster:
this uses regular script, but in contrast to the excerpt we saw before, the formation of the characters is more haphazard (excitable?). it's also written left -> right! this suggests to us the writer is a commoner, as opposed to a royal scribe.
these are some things you can keep in mind when you're writing or drawing in this universe—while you're probably writing in english, the characters would be steeped in the writing systems we've been talking about. if a character's sending a letter, what might the recipient notice about the handwriting? what does it tell them about their social status or education? could the shape of the letters signal something about where they come from, i.e. water tribe characters write a more curvy script?
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All the Zutara from the new chibi comic "Aang's Unfreezing day" :3
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@DARKHORSECOMICS ARE BRINGING US THE GOODS IN 2023! Which books are you picking up?
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