Storytelling, Folktales and the Comic Book Format

Comic Book Violence and Vengeance

This study investigated the effects of reading violent versus nonviolent comic books on vengeful responding to hypothetical scenarios. Results indicated that participants reading violent comic books were the most vengeful. Exposure to violent media may influence the likelihood of seeking revenge by activating or reinforcing an individual’s aggressive network. Comic Book Violence and Vengeance 3...

Defining the Comic Plot: Genre and Storytelling in Aristophanes

Toward a Theory of Comic Book Communication

In an October 15, 1986, appearance on "Late Night with David Letterman," Harvey Pekar, writer of the autobiographical comic book American Splendor, expressed the potential of the comic book medium in clear, simple terms: "It’s words and pictures. You can do anything you want with words and pictures" (Witek 154) Comic books are a unique and powerful form of communication. Perhaps long-time comic...

Pedagogical Analysis of Comic Authoring Systems for Educational Digital Storytelling

Web 2.0 technologies and innovation of social and interactive authoring tools have garnered rapid transformation towards the practice of blended-learning approach. With learner-generated content projects, broad set of knowledge, media literacies, and soft skills are cultivated when learners actively produce their own educational materials; moving beyond traditional content consumers. Although t...

Role of the Narrator in an Adventure Comic Book

On the speech side of the bridge is the visual material within each panel. Indeed, the absence of an immediate contextual envelop is a primary factor distinguishing writing from speech. In comic books, however, each illustration supplies a visual context through which the reader easily enters the instantial world. She/He sees characters operating within their world, characters who in turn see a...