Forget Garfield, Peanuts, Frank & Ernest, Blondie, Andy Capp, The Born Loser or even the Japanese manga. Folks, we're already in the age of "rage comics".
Probably, to many people the term may not ring a bell. But if you are using Facebook, Twitter or other social media websites, chances are that you must have seen, read, or even shared, these amateurish-looking, yet extremely expressive, and often not so polite, comics before.
Love them or hate them, as long as you're using the internet you're destined to see them more and more. And who knows ... you might soon become one of the growing numbers of people around the world who are having fun making and spreading them!
Yes, unlike Garfield or other conventional strips, rage comics do not limit you to the role of merely a reader. With a host of ready-made and well-known characters, better known as "memes" (pronounced meem), any web surfer with a story or an idea to tell can choose the memes that suits the scene they have in mind and put them together to create their own, original comics.
While many of the memes are simple drawings of highly expressive faces, others may be selected photographs of people or animals with similar traits. But no matter what form they come, each meme represents a certain feeling, emotion or reaction. And they are named so. The characters used in the accompanying comic, for example, are the F*ck Yea Guy, the Cereal Guy and the Oh Crap Rage Face. Have another look at the comic and you can tell right away which name belongs to which character.
If you wish to know more about rage comics and how to create them, the following websites are among those that provide useful information as well as meme collections and even applications to help you make your first comic:
http://ragecomics.memebase.com/
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rage-comics
