Defining Comics?

Subliminal Messages in Comic Books: A Semiology Study on Ardian Syaf’s Case

“…Along with Bouzida's research method (2014), the author also uses the theories from Meskin (2007);(2009), andLaPlante (2008) for the comic theories, while Chandler (2007) and Bouzida (2014) for the Semiology theories. This research is designed to reveal the denotative and connotative meanings of an image, and in the end, can affirm its new meta-language.…”

“…These things make comics have earned the right to be considered art on their own merits. Works such as George Herriman's Krazy Kat strips, Spiegel-man's Maus, Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (New York, Pantheon: 2000), and the Crumb oeuvre provide incontrovertible evidence of the artistic possibility of the form (Meskin, 2007).…”

“…In short, the comic is a sequential art that tells a story that becomes a medium to bound and mix images and words and involves every sense of the readers. Carrier in Meskin (2007) argues for three essential features of the comic; the speech balloon, the closely linked narrative, and the booksize scale. And yet, the comic is not only consist of those three features; there are the panels, the gutter, color, effects and of course, theme.…”

Framing Education: Doing Comics Literacy in the Classroom

“…Comic studies as a valid field of scholarly research started picking up in the 1990s (Lent, 2010), and today it is an established area in many parts of the world (e.g., Beaty, 2004;Cohn, 2014;Groensteen, 2007; C. Hatfield, 2006;Meskin, 2007;Platz Cortsen, 2012;Postema, 2013;Sousanis, 2015;Strömberg, 2007) 3 . Bart Beaty compares the academic study of comics to a toddler "taking its first steps towards maturity" (Beaty, 2004, p. 403).…”

“…Comics, comic books, manga, graphica, graphic novels, bandes dessinées, or the funnies: there are many names and definitions for the narrative sequential organization of words and pictures (McCloud, 1993;Meskin, 2007;Thompson, 2008). Thierry Groensteen's (2007) The System of Comics (orig: Système de la bande dessinée) details a linguistic view of comics as a systematic form of literature for mediating story to readers.…”