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Language of Comics.

By: Material type: TextCopyright date: ©2003Publisher: London : Routledge, 2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (121 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203413500
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 741.5
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Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- What are comics? -- How comic are comics? -- The components of comics -- The panel -- The gutter -- The caption -- Summary -- Words and pictures -- The blend between words and pictures -- Semiotics and the idea of the sign -- Looking at words -- The visual aspect of words in comics -- Reading pictures -- Pictures in comics -- The collaboration between words and pictures -- Summary -- Between the panels -- Cohesion -- Repetition -- Coherence -- Semantic field -- Inference: bridging the gaps -- Summary -- The voices of comics -- Who's speaking? -- Thought presentation: reading the characters' minds -- Voices in comics -- Thought balloons -- Summary -- The eyes of comics -- Deictics -- Summary -- Comics and computers -- Cartoons on your desktop? -- Words and comics -- Artists with mice -- Summary -- Answers and commentaries -- References and further reading -- Index of terms.
Summary: 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'.
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Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- What are comics? -- How comic are comics? -- The components of comics -- The panel -- The gutter -- The caption -- Summary -- Words and pictures -- The blend between words and pictures -- Semiotics and the idea of the sign -- Looking at words -- The visual aspect of words in comics -- Reading pictures -- Pictures in comics -- The collaboration between words and pictures -- Summary -- Between the panels -- Cohesion -- Repetition -- Coherence -- Semantic field -- Inference: bridging the gaps -- Summary -- The voices of comics -- Who's speaking? -- Thought presentation: reading the characters' minds -- Voices in comics -- Thought balloons -- Summary -- The eyes of comics -- Deictics -- Summary -- Comics and computers -- Cartoons on your desktop? -- Words and comics -- Artists with mice -- Summary -- Answers and commentaries -- References and further reading -- Index of terms.

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'.

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