The Language of Comics
Subtitle: Word and Image
Contributors: Robin Varnum (Editor); Christina T. Gibbons (Editor)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: January 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781578064144
Subjects: Cartoons & comic strips; Language & Linguistics; Media studies; Techniques - Cartooning; General; Art and literature; Art; Humor; Popular Culture - General; History; 20th century; Comic books, strips, etc; Comic books, strips, etc.; History and criticism
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.