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Comics and the law: jurisprudence with a comic face
2023This chapter interrogates comics' dalliance not merely with the law, but with legal theory, across three archetypal axes, predicated on fundamental assumptions about the enforcers' relationship with the forces of law in their respective societies. The first one is Superman, the external, unauthorised but unambiguous saviour.
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Comics as History, Comics as Literature
2013This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content, while keeping the approach on an international market versus the American one. Few resources currently exist showing the cross-disciplinary aspects of comics.
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Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Fun and Games, 2012
Seeing thru Walls is the first location-based comic story for the GPS environment. Current digital comics (web comics or online comics) are confined to a computer screen and use the affordances of digital medium in a limited way. Our aim is to produce an environment where we can tie sensory details of the physical environment to comic frames.
Özge Samanci, Anuj Tewari
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Seeing thru Walls is the first location-based comic story for the GPS environment. Current digital comics (web comics or online comics) are confined to a computer screen and use the affordances of digital medium in a limited way. Our aim is to produce an environment where we can tie sensory details of the physical environment to comic frames.
Özge Samanci, Anuj Tewari
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2018
This chapter probes the Jewish visual imagination of the sacred through a discussion of the Hebrew alphabet as “graphic narrative.” Exploring how the relation of text and image becomes deconstructed and redefined in classical rabbinic writings on the Hebrew alphabet and the forms of the letters, this chapter opens a reciprocal dialogue between “comics”
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This chapter probes the Jewish visual imagination of the sacred through a discussion of the Hebrew alphabet as “graphic narrative.” Exploring how the relation of text and image becomes deconstructed and redefined in classical rabbinic writings on the Hebrew alphabet and the forms of the letters, this chapter opens a reciprocal dialogue between “comics”
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Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2013
During a weeklong design thinking camp, youth ages 11-14 created comic books. This activity served as a "take away" product used as a tool for reflection and representation of their experiences. Together, students in design teams documented the week's activities using an iPod touch, generating the media they then included in comic books created using ...
Shelley V. Goldman, Molly Bullock
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During a weeklong design thinking camp, youth ages 11-14 created comic books. This activity served as a "take away" product used as a tool for reflection and representation of their experiences. Together, students in design teams documented the week's activities using an iPod touch, generating the media they then included in comic books created using ...
Shelley V. Goldman, Molly Bullock
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Comics Professionals on Comics Studies
Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, 2017A regular feature in Inks , “From the Field” works to highlight insights and issues from the perspective comics professionals and to articulate spaces for collaboration and partnership between scholars and cartoonists. In this inaugural issue, we ask a range of cartoonists for their thoughts on Comics Studies as a field—and what they wish folks would ...
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Comic affiliations/comic subversions
2018This chapter explores the use of humour to create new affiliative networks and subvert power hierarchies in the work of British Muslim Pakistani-heritage author, Ayisha Malik. It argues that Malik’s appropriation of the chick lit genre to engage a Muslim protagonist enables a redeployment of the genre’s humour so that social norms that work to ...
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The comic as a binary language. An hypothesis on comic structure∗
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 2008Abstract This article uses some simple non-parametric statistical methods to study the structure of comics. By reducing the sequence of vignettes in a comic to a sequence of binary symbols using the run theory, an explanatory hypothesis is proposed on the relation between the number of runs in the sequence and the number that might be expected under ...
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2011
This lesson shows the potential for using comic strips and comic books as a means to engage students in the literacy process. A connection is made to the current trend in films and animated television programming, showing how old comic book favorites have made it to the big screen.
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This lesson shows the potential for using comic strips and comic books as a means to engage students in the literacy process. A connection is made to the current trend in films and animated television programming, showing how old comic book favorites have made it to the big screen.
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