Copyright © 2006 Heldref Publications Abstract: This article explores the often contradictory relationship between films and comic book art. Adaptations of superhero comics have reinforced a commercialistic blockbuster mentality among the Hollywood studios. Adaptations of graphic novels have explored alternate visions of visual style and representation. Complications of these polarized effects ...

the art of comics is one of the artistic medium which illustrates a story with various concepts through frames of images. this kind of artistic expression, from its beginning time till now, has been passed various stages of developments in the aesthetic field of visual arts, and it has been achieved special and singular form and characteristic, and it has been gained a unique way of expression ...

This paper examines the role of design comics within business analysis. We first consider background to the use of comics within design work. This leads us to collate a number of advantages to using design comics as an intermediate and user-centric representation within acts of business analysis. We then describe our own use of design comics for making sense of socio-technical organisation and ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate ways in which educational comics might provide support in dealing with feelings and attitudes towards health conditions, as well as improving understanding of factual information and to identify potential weakness of comics as a medium for health information. METHODS Semi-structured interviewees with eleven university students who either had a mental or physical heal...

This paper examines the role of design comics within business analysis. We first consider background to the use of comics within design work. This leads us to collate a number of advantages to using design comics as an intermediate and user-centric representation within acts of business analysis. We then describe our own use of design comics for making sense of socio-technical organisation and ...

Informed consent has now become common in medical practice. However, a gap still exists between doctors and patients in the understanding of clinical conditions. We designed medical comics about "subarachnoid hemorrhage" and "intracerebral hemorrhage" to help doctors obtain informed consent intuitively, quickly, and comprehensively.Between September 2010 and September 2012, we carried out a que...

The interactive creation of comics on the World Wide Web has become increasingly relevant over the last few years as a way for amateur creators to produce, share and distribute their comics. However, web applications that allow this kind of creation still restrict users interaction by not considering the repetition of previous elements across a comics story. Moreover, they use very simple metho...

Research into the effectiveness of comic books as health education tools overwhelmingly consists of studies evaluating the information learnt as a result of reading the comic, for example using preintervention and postintervention questionnaires. In essence, these studies evaluate comics in the same way in which a patient information leaflet might be evaluated, but they fail to evaluate the nar...

Physicians who recommend patient education comics should consider that some patients might question the appropriateness of this format, especially in the US, where a dominant cultural view of comics is that they are juvenile and intended to be funny. In this case, Dr. S might have approached communication with Mrs. T differently, even without knowing her attitude toward comics as a format for d...