old or new media

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this comic strip of calvin and hobbes is an old media because it was made by hand with a brush and ink. it is also a new media becuase it uses the combination of text and image together to tell a story which is not the most ancient forms of media. the image we are looking at is actually one of the newer forms of media because it is a digital photograph of a printed copy of the comic strip. it being digital removes the viewer ( a little ) from noticing the hand of the creator in it. but it being originally made by the hand forces it's way more heavily to the forefront. the strip being hand made puts it into the old media category because there are ways to make the comic strip images entirely digitally now.