Whatare

comics?

Comics are not a genre

Michael Turner

Carl Barks, Uncle Scrooge

Charles Schulz, Peanuts

Comics are aform

Shaun Tan, The Arrival

Lorenzo Mattotti, Stigmates

Meister Bertram von Minden,The Grabower Altar, 1375-1383

Colin McCahon, 6 Days in Nelson & Canterbury (1950)

How to read

comics

Bill Watterson

Reading pictures

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Drawings are a kind of language

Chantal Montellier

Visual metaphor

David B.

Vocabularies of conventional signs

Herge

Miwa Ueda, Peach Girl

Chris WareAcme Novelty Library

Chris WareSketchbook

Dialects, Idioms, Accents

Style as individual ‘voice’

H. G. Potter / Chester Brown

Robert Crumb & Aline Kominsky-Crumb