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Discover the basics in comics writing from Steven Philip Jones, a professional comics writer and comic book writing instructor. Comics Writing shows you the step-by-step process of creating a comics script and how it is turned into a finished comics page. With the help of examples and comic book illustrations, this book will introduce you…
This book will take you from concept to comic book in a series of easy-to-follow steps. It contains practical, real-world advice based on over ten years of experience. You will learn how to craft a marketable concept, write a winning script, find that perfect artist and add the finishing touches. Make Your Comic Book, Pronto!…
What comes to mind when you think about superheroes? Strength, bravery, and heroism are common answers. However, superheroes do not only have physical strength, but they also have mental strengths and skills. Superheroes tend to have intelligence and detection skills which allow them to develop other skills. In this analysis of superhero literacy aimed at…
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…
Do Irish superheroes actually sound Irish? Why are Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoons funny? How do political cartoonists in India, Turkey, and the US get their point across? What is the impact of English on comics written in other languages?These questions and many more are answered in this volume, which brings together the two fields…
This edited volume brings together work in the field of empirical comics research.
Writer’s Resource: Character Building looks at several character issues when it comes to writing comics. This includes a quick character generation process, how to resolve character vs. plot issues, and even diversity issues. Organizations and how to build them are looked at, as are several issues about diversity and feminism. There are a lot of…
Many educators now agree that graphic novels inform as well as entertain, and to dismiss the educational potential of the graphic novel is to throw away a golden opportunity to reach out to young readers. This dynamic book takes a look at the term “graphic novel,” how the format has become entwined in our culture,…
One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly’s Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the controversial senator was a blip on Edward R. Murrow’s radar. The strip’s satire was so biting, it was often relegated to newspaper editorial sections at a time…
In A Feeling of Wrongness, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman confront the rhetorical challenge inherent in the concept of pessimism by analyzing how it is represented in an eclectic range of texts on the fringes of popular culture, from adult animated cartoons to speculative fiction. Packer and Stoneman explore how narratives such as True Detective,…
Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on) material from Greek and Roman myth, literature and history. At times the connection is cosmetic-as perhaps with Wonder Woman’s Amazonian heritage-and at times it is almost irrelevant-as with Hercules’ starfaring adventures in the 1982 Marvel miniseries….
Echoes are the quiet architecture of novels. Small sound, large interpretive consequences. In The Echo-Device in Literature, Elbridge Colby assembles a lucid literary criticism collection that treats repetition as a deliberate, readable technique. These literary analysis essays examine the echo motif in literature from sentence-level refrains to structural reprise, showing how rhetorical devices in fiction…
يتناول هذا الكتاب موضوع الصحافة المتخصصة بوصفها أحد الاتجاهات الحديثة في العمل الإعلامي، والتي نشأت استجابةً لتنوع اهتمامات الجمهور وتزايد تعقيد القضايا المعاصرة. يقدم الكتاب إطارًا علميًا ومنهجيًا يعرّف بالصحافة المتخصصة، ويوضح أهميتها ووظائفها، ويبرز دورها في تعميق المعرفة وتقديم محتوى نوعي يخاطب شرائح محددة من القراء وفق اهتماماتهم واحتياجاتهم. يستعرض الكتاب نشأة الصحافة المتخصصة…
Reunindo com maestria os campos da comunicação e da saúde, este livro relata experiências vividas nas “Oficinas Corpo, Escuta e Escrita – Experimentos Textuais Formativos”, conduzidas por Liliane Oraggio com profissionais de saúde de diversas áreas. Baseada na psicologia formativa de Stanley Keleman, a autora mostra como realiza práticas corporais que levam os participantes das…
The Holocaust represents an immense historical as well as a cultural trauma. The following thesis talks about the trauma symptoms and the behavior of Holocaust victims, including a broad selection of scholarly research on the Holocaust aftermath. Afterwards, features of postgeneration art will be presented in detail, as second generation literature and art mirrors the…
Die Reihe Narratologia publiziert innovative Monographien und Sammelbände zur modernen Erzähltheorie und zu ihrer fachgeschichtlichen Rekonstruktion aus allen philologischen Disziplinen. Sie stellt das erste narratologische Forum dieser Art in Deutschland dar. Neben literarischen Texten stehen u. a. auch das Alltagserzählen, Wort-Bild-Texte, Erzählen im Film und in den neuen Medien sowie das Erzählen in Historiographie, Ethnologie,…
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