Abstract The Visual Language Research Corpus (VLRC) is a dataset of annotations 376 stories from comics the United States, northwestern Europe, and East Asia, along with analysis complete 10 year run Calvin Hobbes comic strip. Comics were annotated using 254 constructs Theory, framework focusing on linguistic cognitive structures involved in visual multimodal information. These include panel’s ...

Albert Lewis Kanter launched Classic Comics in 1941, a series of comic books that retold classic literature for young audience. Five Shakespeare’s celebrated plays appear the collection. The popularity Classics Illustrated encouraged Seaboard Publishing to issue competitive brand, Stories by Famous Authors (1949-51), which three Shakespearean dramas. Although both these enterprises aimed reinfo...

We were delighted to read the Perspective by Brian Callender and colleagues exploring contribution of comics visual culture contagion in COVID-19 pandemic.1Callender B Obuobi S Czerwiec MK Williams I COVID-19, comics, contagion.Lancet. 2020; 396: 1061-1063Summary Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (5) Google Scholar Comics shared social media have given voice a breadth global experiences pandemic, byp...

Recently, comic is read not only through paper media, but also digital devices i.e. personal computer, cell phone, epaper reader and etc. Thus, the display environment is quite different at each device. Comic consists of many frames that have text, character and illustrations. Moreover, the reading order of comic is defined by frames. Therefore, in order to provide user centric presentation fun...

This paper outlines the historical development of the US manga (Japanese comics) industry from the 1980s through the present in order to address the question why foreign cultural products become popular in offshore markets in spite of cultural difference. This paper focuses on local publishers as “gatekeepers” in the introduction of foreign culture. Using complete data on manga titles published...