The Patterns of Comics

Visual Languages of Comics from Asia, Europe, and North America

Dr Neil Cohn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-38164-3 (ISBN)

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Comics are a global phenomenon, and yet it’s easy to distinguish the visual styles of comics from Asia, Europe, or the United States. But, do the structures of these visual narratives differ in more subtle ways? Might these comics actually be drawn in different visual languages that vary in their structures across cultures?

To address these questions, The Patterns of Comics seeks evidence through a sustained analysis of an annotated corpus of over 36,000 panels from more than 350 comics from Asia, Europe, and the United States. This data-driven approach reveals the cross-cultural variation in symbology, layout, and storytelling between various visual languages, and shows how comics have changed across 80 years. It compares, for example, the subtypes within American comics and Japanese manga, and analyzes the formal properties of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes across its entire 10-year run. Throughout, it not only uncovers the patterns in and across the panels of comics, but shows how these regularities in the visual languages of comics connect to the organizing principles of all languages.

Neil Cohn is an award-winning cognitive scientist known for pioneering research on language, graphics, multimodality, and cognition, and Associate Professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. His books The Visual Language of Comics (Bloomsbury, 2013) and the 2021 Eisner-nominated Who Understands Comics? (Bloomsbury, 2020), establish the linguistic and cognitive study of graphic communication.

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
1. Visual Language
2. Corpus-Driven Comics Research
3. Morphology
4. Page Layout
5. Situational Coherence
6. Framing Structure
7. Narrative Structure
8. Visual Languages across Time
9. Cross-Cultural Visual Languages?
10. The Visual Language of Calvin and Hobbes
11. Towards a Visual Language Typology
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2023
Zusatzinfo	80 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-38164-0 / 1350381640
ISBN-13	978-1-350-38164-3 / 9781350381643
Zustand	Neuware