Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

1998/03/01 by Alan Manning · 6 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Comics and Graphic Narratives #Digital Games and Media #Comics #Visual arts #Aesthetics #Computer science #Art #Artificial intelligence

paper · doi:10.1109/tpc.1998.661632

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Abstract

INSIGHTS about professional communication may come from odd and unexpected places. McCloud's Understanding Comics (hereafter UC) is a case in point. Despite the juvenile connotations evoked by any discussion of comic books, the theory of visual communication presented in UC arguably rivals the best of contemporary semiotics (that is, the study of how we make meaning out of gestures, words, paragraphs, pictures, and so on).

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