Zombie and mummy

Introduction

Zombie and Mummy is a significant piece of artwork by the well renowned graphic artist Olia Lialina, which has been funded by the Dia Art Foundation. Zombie and Mummy is an interactive web base that contains personalized simple black and white comic strip stories all revolving around the same two characters, Zombie and Mummy. Olia Lialina came up with the original concept of Zombie and Mummy and in designing the web base she allows for each individual story to be told without having any continual story plot connecting individual stories. Each episode has a detailed background setting, embedding each episode in a colorful environment. All the images are drawn on Olia Lialina's palm pilot, creating images that are simple, with no shades of gray, with only 160x146 pixels per frame. All the images are available to be downloaded onto personalized palm device.

Formatting

The website utilizes an animated GIF image for each link to each individual cartoon. This gives each link a different look that is more tailored for fit each cartoon's theme. This is convenient and essential for this site to be easily viewed, because nearly any standard browser supports GIF images. This eliminates the need for an additional plug-in or flash player. Once each link is accessed each cartoon has an individual background. Each cartoon is then set up to be in a text box. While the animations make the site seem intricate it is actually quite simple. This could be partly because the site was initially built via palm pilot.

Comics

Zombie and Mummy is a comic strip in which the two main characters experience everyday life, doing various activities, and are always presented with some type of obstacle they must overcome. The episodes range from Zombie and Mummy forming a hip hop band to falling in love, with 18 individual episodes. Zombie and Mummy constantly have to deal with the complications that they experience being a Zombie and a Mummy trying to live in a human world. The comics themselves are drawn on a Palm Pilot resulting in a very low-tech look. Each episode consists of 6 different scenes, including a title page and a THE END page. Each storyline is very basic and the ending can be very random. The original objective Zombie and Mummy set out for is never fully accomplished and the story usually has some type of twist that catches the reader completely by surprise. The comic strip is directed towards young adults that would find humor in the hilarity of a zombie and mummy living everyday life, with frequent spoofs on popular culture throughout the episodes. The basic comic strip is imbedded into a webpage that is specifically chosen or designed to enhance the storyline. Some of the webpages simply give elaborate color and animation to the comic strip background, while other webpages are actually independent sites themselves and are meant to compliment the specific episode’s plot.
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