The Language of Comics
Subtitle: Word and Image (Studies in Popular Culture)
Contributors: Christina T. Gibbons (Editor); Robin Varnum (Editor)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: January 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781578064137
Subjects: History; Literature And Society; General; Graphic Satire And Humor; Techniques - Cartooning; Humor; Art; History and criticism; Popular Culture - General; Social Science; 20th century; Art and literature; Comic books, strips, etc; Comic books, strips, etc.
First sentence: Throughout the history of the nineteenth century comic strip one can detect occasional impatience with the failure of word and image to harmonize, the stubborn intractability of captions to measure up to the promise of the drawing.