The Language of Comics provides a history of comics from the end of the nineteenth century to the present and explores the 'semiotics of comics'.

A diverse study of how words and pictures interact in comics to make messages

Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most p

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This title challenges many of the key assumptions about the 'grammar' and formal characteristics of comics, and offers a more nuanced, theoretical framework tha