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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
closure
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