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Dunning–Kruger effect about Raymond art

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anonymous comic fan (sic!) about Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond, Lucca 2018

Dunning–Kruger effect

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.

As described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the bias results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability; that is, “the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.”

Effetto Dunning-Kruger

L’effetto Dunning-Kruger è una distorsione cognitiva a causa della quale individui poco esperti in un campo tendono a sopravvalutare le proprie abilità autovalutandosi, a torto, esperti in quel campo, mentre, per contro, persone davvero competenti tendono a sminuire o sottovalutare la propria reale competenza. Come corollario di questa teoria, spesso gli incompetenti si dimostrano estremamente supponenti.

Questa distorsione viene attribuita all’incapacità metacognitiva, da parte di chi non è esperto in una materia, di riconoscere i propri limiti ed errori. Il possesso di una reale competenza, al contrario, può produrre la distorsione inversa, con un’affievolita percezione della propria competenza e una diminuzione della fiducia in se stessi, poiché gli individui competenti sarebbero portati a vedere negli altri un grado di comprensione equivalente al proprio. Gli psicologi David Dunning e Justin Kruger, della Cornell University, hanno tratto la conclusione che: «l’errore di valutazione dell’incompetente deriva da un giudizio errato sul proprio conto, mentre quello di chi è altamente competente deriva da un equivoco sul conto degli altri».

Xtina Sunday Comic Strip

Xtina Sunday Comic Strip

Born today Sy Barry

Born today Sy Barry

Seymour Barry (12 March 1928, USA) brother of comic artist Dan Barry, studied at the New York School of Art and Design. When he graduated, he went to the Art Students League, while working as an assistant to his brother. In the late forties and early fifties, Sy Barry did freelance work, mainly as an inker, for comic book companies such as Gleason, Marvel and especially National, where he worked on the features ‘Jonny Peril’, ‘Rex’ and ‘Phantom Stranger’.
In the late fifties, he assisted his brother again with the inking of ‘Flash Gordon’. This job put him in contact with the King Features editors, who asked him to take over ‘The Phantom’ after Wilson McCoy’s death in 1961. After drawing the adventures of the Ghost-Who-Walks for over 30 years, he retired in 1995.

Thanks afnews: three volumes of Pogo

Thanks afnews: three volumes of Pogo

Dad saw an article on AfNews and the volumes of Pogo with strong discount on Amazon. And he bought them for me. Arrived today. Thanks Afnews. 

Walt Kelly, byname of Walter Crawford Kelly, (born Aug. 25, 1913, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Oct. 18, 1973, Los Angeles, Calif.), American creator of the comic strip “Pogo,” which was noted for its sophisticated humour, gentle whimsy, and occasional pointed political satire.

In 1935 Kelly went to Hollywood, where he did animation drawings for Walt Disney Productions. During the 1940s he was active as a commercial artist in New York City, one of his projects being a comic book in which the character Pogo appeared about 1943. His great opportunity came in 1948 with the publication of the short-lived New York Star, for which he did the daily comic strip “Pogo,” based on the character he had created earlier. After the Star ceased publication in January 1949, “Pogo” was carried by the New York Post and, before long, by many other papers.

The characters in “Pogo” are animals who live in Okefenokee Swamp, in Georgia. Pogo himself is a self-effacing possum. Other characters were Howland Owl, Albert the Alligator, and Churchy LaFemme, a turtle. The strip was exceptionally well-drawn, and the text material was witty and highly literate. Kelly frequently included animal characters that closely resembled prominent political figures of the day. Beginning with Pogo (1951) there have been many collections of Kelly’s strips, compiled both from newspapers and from original creations.

Alex Raymond’s Character: Rip O’Rourke

Alex Raymond’s Character: Rip O’Rourke, His girlfriend Taffy and Desmond the butler.

Preparatory sketch, 1946

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Xtina comic strips Special Guests

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Xtina Comic Strip: Uomini!

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Xtina comic strip Captcha

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