Not every strip in the underground comics uses words like “fuck” and “shit,” and not every strip deals with subjects deemed taboo by the comic-book blue-noses.
Comics are a sub-set of pictorial narrative; therefore, all comics are pictorial narratives, but not all pictorial narratives are comics.
The confusion inherent in the word comics has been apparent to those writing in the filed for years. The word has a plural form but is singular in […]
As every schoolboy knows, comics do not stand alone at microphones in the dark. Indeed, we cannot even read them in the dark. We need light, the more, […]
Some twenty million people follow with interest, curiosity, and amusement the daily fortunes of five or ten heroes of the comic strip, and that they do this is […]
Of all the lively arts the Comic Strip is the most despised, and with the exception of the movies it is the most popular.
The famous “extermination of the real,” encountered in the form of a comic book apocalypse, turns out to be just a cheap plot device, a suspenseful (and ultimately […]
The comic strip is the definition of quotidian. It comes out everyday, you read it on the toilet or having breakfast. It just weaves itself into your everyday […]
Comics are an invented language. They are a synthesis of verbal and visual language, because all of the visual elements are in place as part of a narrative […]
Mainstream comics can be categorized in terms of two major strands: homonormative and [gender] integrationist.
We are definitely living in a visual culture and comics offer a key to becoming literate in a mode of communication that combines the verbal and the visual […]