Les magazines de bande dessinée d’horreur Creepy et Eerie, édités par Warren Publishing à partir 1964, sont habituellement lus comme poursuivant l’œuvre entreprise les publications EC Comics au cours la décennie précédente. Cet article vise montrer qu’il est possible placer ces dans une autre généalogie, devant plus cinéma aux monstres, dont le pionner Famous Monsters of Filmland, également pub...

Batman has contributed more than its fair share to the 'darkness that hangs over contemporary culture like a picturesque pall. 'Dark' designates both a highly marketable aesthetic style and an ethical, or rather anti-ethical, stance, a kind of designer nihilism whose chief theoretical proposition is the denial of the possibility of the Good. Gotham, particularly as re-invented by Frank Miller i...

This article examines the love of comics or bedephilia discernible in Katherine Collins’s Neil Horse Comics and Stories, a short-lived comic from 1980s. It interrogates contextualizes “childish” elements comic, its bridging children’s culture adult through focusing girls’ funny animal comics. also discusses comic’s interactions with musicals. Situating “maturing” scene 1980s North America, this...

Stergios Botzakis, literacy scholar and expert on comics, is the co-author of Teach Purpose!: Responsive Teaching for Student Success. He joined Jason DeHart a great discussion covering their history with comics medium, popular titles, steps in helping students create comics.

Understanding how a piece of data was produced, where it was stored, and by whom it was accessed, is crucial information in many processes. To understand the trace of data, the provenance of that data can be recorded and analyzed. But it is sometimes hard to understand this provenance information, especially for people who are not familiar with software or computer science. To close this gap, w...

This paper focuses on the implementation of linguistics theory, particularly in multimodality, to understand various forms reading materials such as digital books and comics. aimed gain insights into how practitioners school teachers optimise use comics English teaching learning activities using well-informed theories. In addition, this study also described perspectives creative industry contri...

Comics have a rich visual vocabulary, and people find them appealing. They are also an effective form of communication. We have built a system, called Comic Chat, that represents on-line communications in the form of comics. Comic Chat automates numerous aspects of comics generation, including balloon construction and layout, the placement and orientation of comic characters, the default select...

Innovative interventions addressing childhood obesity are needed to capture the attention of youth living in a multi-media environment. The purpose of this paper is to describe the qualitative study that was conducted to inform the development of an appealing manga comic (Japanese comic art) to promote fruit consumption in youth and the process of creating the comic. Seven focus groups and two ...

Comic Chat began as a project at Microsoft Corporation’s new research labs. Our goal was to build a new kind of chat program, that automatically enhanced a textual chat conversation by adding graphics, using conventions adopted from the comics domain. As people type text into Comic Chat, comics panels appear. The program uses traditional comics illustration rules to determine which characters s...