The Language of Comics: Word and Image

摘要: With essays by Jan Baetens, David A. Berona, Frank L. Cioffi, N. C. Christopher Couch, Robert Harvey, Gene Kannenberg, Jr., Catherine Khordoc, Kunzle, Marion D. Perret, and Todd Taylor. In our culture, which depends increasingly on images for instruction recreation, it is important to ask how words make meaning when they are combined. Comics, one of the most widely read media twentieth century, serves as an ideal focusing investigation word-and-image question. This collection attempts give answer. The first six see separate art forms that play with or against each other. Kunzle finds restrict Adolphe Willette Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen in Le Chat Noir. examining wordless novels, argues ability pictures words. Taylor draws classical rhetoric demonstrate Road Runner more persuasive than Couch--writing Yellow Kid--and Harvey--discussing early New Yorker cartoons--are both interested historical development partnership between comics. Cioffi traces a disjunctive relationship opposites work Andrzej Mleczko, Ben Katchor, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman. last four explore integration images. Among five comic book adaptations Hamlet Perret form dialectic. Baetens critiques semiotically inspired theory Phillippe Marion. Khordoc explores speech balloons Asterix Gaul. demonstrates Chicago-based artist Chris Ware blurs difference word image. Language however, critical comics single issue affects variety