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Varnum,
Robin, and Christina T. Gibbons, eds. The
Language of
Comics:
Word and Image. Studies
in Popular Culture. Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 2002. 222 pp. ISBN
1578064139 (hc), 1578064147 (paper).
Publisher's Information (University Press of Mississippi)
Introduction - Robin
Varnum and
Christina T. Gibbons ... ix
- The
Voices of
Silence: Willette, Steinlen and the Introduction of the Silent Strip in
the Chat
Noir,
with a
German Coda - David
Kunzle ... 3
-
Pictures
Speak in Comics without Words: Pictorial Principles in the Work of Milt
Gross, Hendrik Dorgathen, Eric Drooker, and Peter Kuper - David A.
Beronä
... 19
-
If
He Catches
You, You're Through: Coyotes and Visual Ethos - Todd Taylor , 40
-
The
Yellow Kid
and the
Comic Page - N.
C.
Christopher
Couch
... 60
-
Comedy
at the
Juncture of Word and Image: The Emergence of the Modern Magazine Gag
Cartoon Reveals the Vital Blend - Robert C.
Harvey
... 75
-
Disturbing
Comics: The Disjunction of Word and Image in the Comics of Andrzej
Mleczko, Ben Katchor, R. Crumb, and Art Spiegelman - Frank L.
Cioffi ... 97
-
"And
Suit the
Action to the Word": How a Comics Panel Can Speak Shakespeare - Marion D.
Perret ...
123
-
Revealing
Traces: A New Theory of Graphic Enunciation - Jan Baetens ... 145
-
The
Comic
Book's Soundtrack: Visual Sound Effects in Asterix - Catherine
Khordoc ...
156
-
The
Comics of
Chris Ware: Text, Image, and Visual Narrative Strategies - Gene
Kannenberg, Jr. ... 174
Notes
... 199
Works
Cited
... 205
Contributors
... 213
Index
... 215
Reviews:
- Hatfield.
Charles. [review.] International
Journal of Comic Art
4.2 (Fall 2002): 336-39
- Peak, D.
R. "Scott
McCloud's Great Debate
on Comics Continues." PopMatters.com (no date
given). on-line.
- Jagodzinski, Cecile
M. [review.] College
and Research Libraries 63.5 (September 2002). on-line
text
- Rommens, Arnold.
[review.] Image
[&] Narrative Issue 4 (September 2002). on-line.
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