The Language of Comics

Author: Mario Saraceni
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415214223
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
The Language of Comics provides a history of comics from the end of the nineteenth century to the present and explores the 'semiotics of comics'.

The Language of Comics

Author: Robin Varnum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781578064137
Category : Art and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A diverse study of how words and pictures interact in comics to make messages

The Visual Language of Comics

Author: Neil Cohn
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441174516
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this fundamental part of human identity, little work has explored the comprehension and cognitive underpinnings of visual narratives-until now. This work presents a provocative theory: that drawings and sequential images are structured the same as language. Building on contemporary theories from linguistics and cognitive psychology, it argues that comics are written in a visual language of sequential images that combines with text. Like spoken and signed languages, visual narratives use a lexicon of systematic patterns stored in memory, strategies for combining these patterns into meaningful units, and a hierarchic grammar governing the combination of sequential images into coherent expressions. Filled with examples and illustrations, this book details each of these levels of structure, explains how cross-cultural differences arise in diverse visual languages of the world, and describes what the newest neuroscience research reveals about the brain's comprehension of visual narratives. From this emerges the foundation for a new line of research within the linguistic and cognitive sciences, raising intriguing questions about the connections between language and the diversity of humans' expressive behaviours in the mind and brain.

This Book Contains Graphic Language

Author: Rocco Versaci
Publisher: Continuum
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
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Comics and Language

Author: Hannah Miodrag
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617038040
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
A new theoretical framework that critiques many of the assumptions of comics studies

Understanding Comics

Author: Scott McCloud
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006097625X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.

Reading Comics

Author: Mila Bongco
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317776321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
This study explores how the definition of the medium, as well as its language, readership, genre conventions, and marketing and distribution strategies, have kept comic books within the realm of popular culture. Since comics have been studied mostly in relation to mass media and its influence on society, there is a void in the analysis of the critical issues related to comics as a distinct genre and art form. By focusing on comics as narratives and investigating their formal and structural aspects, as well as the unique reading process they demand, this study presents a unique contribution to the current literature on comics, and helps clarify concepts and definitions useful in studying the medium. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alberta, 1995; revised with new preface, bibliography, and index)

The Lexicon of Comicana

Author: Mort Walker
Publisher: Backinprint.com
ISBN: 9780595089024
Category : Cartooning
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Written as a satire on the comic devices cartoonists use, [this] book quickly became a textbook for art students. Walker researched cartoons around the world to collect this international set of cartoon symbols. The names he invented for them now appear in dictionaries."--Page 4 of cover

The Penguin Book of Comics

Author: George Perry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
This is the story of strip cartoons since comics began, of the artists who created the characters, and of the characters who took charge of their creators. Here you'll find the true tale of Jane and Flook, of Popeye, Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, and L'il Abner, of Tarzan and Captain America and Peanuts, and of all the characters who live in cages but rule the world ... or the better half of it. In this sumptuous, new and supercharged edition of a now classic book George Perry has updated the original text and Alan Aldridge has provided further evidence of his graphic brilliance and keen eye for social history. This is the book that recalls the old-time childhood magic, yet succinctly defines the new, sharp, cool power the comics exert on today's adult world.

Comic Book Rebels

Author: Stan Wiater
Publisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
Creators include; Scott McCloud, Larry Marder, Richard Corben, Jack Jackson, Lee Mars, Howard Cruse, Denis Kitchen, Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird, Dave Sim, Harvey Pekar & Joyce Brabner, Alan Moore, Jean "Moebius" Giraud, Addie Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Frank Miller, Colleen Doran, Rick Veitch, Todd McFarlane, Will Eisner. Also included is McCloud's bill of rights for comic creators.