Quotes On Comics

Reading a comic book is as a complex semiotic process — it involves understanding how the interactions between words and images have been manipulated in order to achieve a story or joke.

Thinking of comicbooks in terms of the “popular” indicates a refusal or an inability to engage with many of the medium’s varied forms of representations, since it undermines the complexity of the ways in which comics may be understood and the range of meanings it can produce.

This medium [comics] uses words and pictures in a way more completely integrated than illustrated or picture books.