“The comics erode the most fundamental habits of humane, civilised living… and they erode them in the most vulnerable element of our society, our children…

“If we ban the comics we are reducing the chances of war and preventing the further perversion of the world’s children.”

Bill Pearsonletter to Landfall (March,

1955)

The Comics Scare

(1940s-1950s)

Seduction of the Innocent by Dr. Frederic Wertham (1954)

“There will be no attempt to give them serious consideration on aesthetic grounds, because they are simply not worth it.”

Margaret Dalziel‘The Comics in New Zealand,’ Landfall (March, 1955)

The ‘Graphic Novel’

Bandes Dessinées (BD)

Graphic Novels by Paul Gravett

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

Genre

Manga

Manga:

Kodomo – aimed at children

Shōjo – aimed at girls

Shōnen – aimed at boys

Josei – aimed at young women (18-30)

Seinen – aimed at young men (18-30)

Yaoi – ‘boy love’ comics

Yuri – ‘girl love’ comics

Hentai – erotic comics

Dōjinshi – fan comics

Crayon Shin-Chan (1992-) by Yoshito Usui

Kawaii !(cute)

Shojo Shonen

Doujinshi – manga made by fans

Shojo Shonen

Visual Language

Reading Pictures

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CHANTAL MONTELLIER

Visual Metaphor

DAVID B.

JOE CHIAPPETTA

HERGETintin (The Castafiore Emerald)

MIWA UEDA, Peach Girl

Dialects, Idioms, Accents

LLOYD DANGLE

Style vs. Content

Style as Content

Style as individual ‘Voice’

Imaginary Physics

Picture + Picture = Comics

TANIGUCHIThe Man Who Walks

Syntax & Grammar

KATSUHIRO OTOMOAkira

CHESTER BROWNLouis Riel

KAZ

CHRIS WARE

Words + Pictures

WILL EISNERComics & Sequential Art

JIM WOODRINGFrank

JOHN BYRNE

DAVE SIM & GERHARD, Cerebus

DAVE SIM & GERHARD, Cerebus

DAVE SIM & GERHARD, Cerebus

GOSCINNY & UDERZO, Asterix the Legionary