The Language of Comics

"The Language of Comics: Word and Image" av redaktörerna Robin Varnum och Christina T. Gibbons, med essäer av Jan Baetens, David A. Beronä, Frank L. Cioffi, N. C. Christopher Couch, Robert C. Harvey, Gene Kannenberg, Jr., Catherine Khordoc, David Kunzle, Marion D. Perret, och Todd Taylor.

Utgiven av University Press of Mississippi, 2001. ISBN 978-1578064137.

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• David Kunzle finds that words restrict the meaning of the art of Adolphe Willette and Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen in Le Chat Noir.

• David A. Berona, examining wordless novels, argues that the ability to read pictures depends on the ability to read words.

• Todd Taylor draws on classical rhetoric to demonstrate that images in The Road Runner are more persuasive than words.

• N. C. Christopher Couch--writing on The Yellow Kid--and Robert C. Harvey--discussing early New Yorker cartoons--are both interested in the historical development of the partnership between words and images in comics.

• Frank L. Cioffi traces a disjunctive relationship of opposites in the work of Andrzej Mleczko, Ben Katchor, R. Crumb, and Art Spiegelman.

• Marion D. Perret finds one among five comic book adaptations of Hamlet in which words and images form a dialectic.

• Jan Baetens critiques the semiotically inspired theory of Phillippe Marion.

• Catherine Khordoc explores speech balloons in Asterix the Gaul.

• Gene Kannenberg, Jr., demonstrates how the Chicago-based artist Chris Ware blurs the difference between word and image.

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