A user guide , also commonly known as a user manual , is intended to assist users in using a particular product, service or application. It's usually written by a technician, product developer, or a company's customer service staff.
17-485: Evan Dorkin (born April 20, 1965) is an American comics artist and cartoonist. His best known works are the comic books Milk and Cheese and Dork , the latter of which features his comic Eltingville . His comics often poke fun at fandom , even while making it clear that Dorkin is a fan himself. Dorkin also served as a writer on the Adult Swim animated series Space Ghost Coast to Coast from 1994 to 1999, and created
34-474: A pilot for an animated adaptation of Eltingville for Adult Swim in 2002. Dorkin was born in Brooklyn, New York , and moved with his family to Staten Island when he was 13 years old. He grew up reading superhero comics (being loyal to Marvel over DC ), Mad magazine, and humor titles by Archie Comics and Harvey Comics . He became even more obsessed with comics when comic book retailer Jim Hanley opened
51-678: A store location near his high school; Dorkin later ended up working there. Dorkin aspired to attend the School of Visual Arts in the animation department, but was not accepted. (He had taken some animation classes at SVA while he was in high school.) Dorkin ended up attending New York University Tisch School of the Arts , but eventually switched his passion from animation to comics. Dorkin's earliest published solo comics were Pirate Corp$ (later renamed Hectic Planet ), published first by Eternity Comics and then Slave Labor Graphics from 1987 to 1989; and then
68-424: A table or counter, with pages organized for modular information updates, replacement, errata, and addenda. User manuals and user guides for most non-trivial PC and browser software applications are book-like documents with contents similar to the above list. They may be distributed either in print or electronically. Some documents have a more fluid structure with many internal links. The Google Earth User Guide
85-478: A variety of Milk & Cheese titles, published by Slave Labor Graphics from 1991 to 1997. As well as his comics work, Dorkin and his wife, Sarah Dyer , have written for Space Ghost Coast to Coast . Dorkin drew the cover art for several ska compilation albums and an EP by Radon in the 1990s. He wrote and produced an animated television pilot for Adult Swim titled Welcome to Eltingville , based on his own characters. He and Dyer wrote some episodes of
102-486: Is an example of this format. The term guide is often applied to a document that addresses a specific aspect of a software product. Some usages are Installation Guide , Getting Started Guide , and various How to guides. An example is the Picasa Getting Started Guide . In some business software applications, where groups of users have access to only a sub-set of the application's full functionality,
119-491: Is married to fellow comics writer/artist Sarah Dyer with whom he has a daughter named Emily. Dorkin is named by Ed Piskor in his suicide note as one of the "Internet Bullies" that drove him to take his own life. Comics artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators / artists in that they produce both
136-536: Is matched to the intended audience , with jargon kept to a minimum or explained thoroughly. The sections of a user manual often include: User guides have been found with ancient devices. One example is the Antikythera Mechanism , a 2,000 year old Greek analogue computer that was found off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in the year 1900. On the cover of this device are passages of text which describe
153-644: The Superman: The Animated Series including the episode "Live Wire", which introduced a new character of the same name . Dorkin wrote the Superman and Batman: World's Funnest one-shot in 2000 which was drawn by various artists. Dorkin and Dyer worked as freelance writers on the 2006 English-language version of the anime Crayon Shin-chan , where they wrote material for the show's first six episodes. Dorkin co-created Beasts of Burden with Jill Thompson . Dyer has frequently colored Dorkin's art. Dorkin
170-648: The Republican elephant . Comic strips received widespread distribution to mainstream newspapers by syndicates . Calum MacKenzie, in his preface to the exhibition catalog, The Scottish Cartoonists (Glasgow Print Studio Gallery, 1979) defined the selection criteria: Many strips were the work of two people although only one signature was displayed. Shortly after Frank Willard began Moon Mullins in 1923, he hired Ferd Johnson as his assistant. For decades, Johnson received no credit. Willard and Johnson traveled about Florida , Maine, Los Angeles , and Mexico, drawing
187-495: The 18th century, poked fun at contemporary politics and customs; illustrations in such style are often referred to as "Hogarthian". Following the work of Hogarth, editorial/political cartoons began to develop in England in the latter part of the 18th century under the direction of its great exponents, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson , both from London. Gillray explored the use of the medium for lampooning and caricature , calling
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#1732858754232204-586: The features and operation of the mechanism. As the software industry was developing, the question of how to best document software programs was undecided. This was a unique problem for software developers, since users often became frustrated with current help documents. Some considerations for writing a user guide that developed at this time include: Before Unix , for example, GCOS , mainframe documentation were printed pages, available on-premise to users (staff, students...), organized into steel binders, locked together in one monolithic steel reading rack, bolted to
221-751: The king ( George III ), prime ministers and generals to account, and has been referred to as the father of the political cartoon. While never a professional cartoonist, Benjamin Franklin is credited with the first cartoon published in The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754: Join, or Die , depicting the American colonies as segments of a snake. In the 19th century, professional cartoonists such as Thomas Nast , whose work appeared in Harper's Weekly , introduced other familiar American political symbols, such as
238-585: The literary and graphic components of the work as part of their practice. Cartoonists may work in a variety of formats, including booklets , comic strips , comic books , editorial cartoons , graphic novels , manuals , gag cartoons , storyboards , posters , shirts , books , advertisements , greeting cards , magazines , newspapers , webcomics , and video game packaging . A cartoonist's discipline encompasses both authorial and drafting disciplines (see interdisciplinary arts ). The terms "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or "comic book artist" refer to
255-475: The picture-making portion of the discipline of cartooning (see illustrator ). While every "cartoonist" might be considered a "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or a "comic book artist", not every "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or a "comic book artist" is a "cartoonist". Ambiguity might arise when illustrators and writers share each other's duties in authoring a work. The English satirist and editorial cartoonist William Hogarth , who emerged in
272-478: The strip while living in hotels, apartments and farmhouses. At its peak of popularity during the 1940s and 1950s, the strip ran in 350 newspapers. According to Johnson, he had been doing the strip solo for at least a decade before Willard's death in 1958: "They put my name on it then. I had been doing it about 10 years before that because Willard had heart attacks and strokes and all that stuff. The minute my name went on that thing and his name went off, 25 papers dropped
289-445: The strip. That shows you that, although I had been doing it ten years, the name means a lot." Societies and organizations Societies and organizations User guide Most user guides contain both a written guide and associated images. In the case of computer applications, it is usual to include screenshots of the human-machine interface(s), and hardware manuals often include clear, simplified diagrams . The language used
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