35.2358, Books: The Patterns of Comics: Cohn (2023)

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Date: 30-Aug-2024
From: Rachel Bradshaw [rachel.bradshaw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Patterns of Comics: Cohn (2023)


Title: The Patterns of Comics
Subtitle: Visual Languages of Comics from Asia, Europe, and North
America
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
                http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/patterns-of-comics-9781350381643/

Author: Neil Cohn
Hardback: ISBN: 9781350381605 Pages: 304 Price: U.K. £ 75
Paperback: ISBN: Paperback Pages: 296 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:

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 these questions, The Patterns of Comics seeks evidence
through a sustained analysis of an annotated corpus of over 36,000
panels from more than 350 comics from Asia, Europe, and the United
States. This data-driven approach reveals the cross-cultural variation
in symbology, layout, and storytelling between various visual
languages, and shows how comics have changed across 80 years. It
compares, for example, the subtypes within American comics and
Japanese manga, and analyzes the formal properties of Bill Watterson's
Calvin and Hobbes across its entire 10-year run. Throughout, it not
only uncovers the patterns in and across the panels of comics, but
shows how these regularities in the visual languages of comics connect
to the organizing principles of all languages.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics
                     Psycholinguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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