gallows humour

Feeling word · 8 styles

Jokes built out of death and disaster. Sparse line, few colors, flat value; content and tone deliberately mismatched. Of single-panel comics, collage.

Styles

• Dada
• Dada Zurich
• The Incoherents
• Pulp Magazine Art
• Posada Calavera Engravings
• Verism
• Letterpress Broadside
• Picture-Magazine Spread

Co-occurs with

• dissonance
• disorder
• vamp
• satire
• the absurd
• camp
• twitchiness
• appropriation
• nonsense
• desire
• philistinism
• cheapness

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