The language of comics : word and image / edited by Robin Varnum and Christina T. Gibbons.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in popular culturePublisher: Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, [2001]Copyright date: c2001Description: xix, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1578064147 (pbk.)
- 9781578064144
- 741.509 LAN 22
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A diverse study of how words and pictures interact in comics to make messages. In our culture, which depends increasingly on images for instruction and recreation, it is important to ask how words and images make meaning when they are combined. Comics, one of the most widely read media of the twentieth century, serves as an ideal for focusing an investigation on the word-and-image question. This collection of essays.
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