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Can Richards
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“Cognitively, one’s eye usually first takes in the whole page, even when one decides to start in the upper left corner and move left to right. This is sometimes called comics’s “all-at-onceness,” or its “symphonic effect.””
— Dec 07, 2019 04:24AM
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Can Richards
is on page 46 of 464
“As a verbal-visual art form, comics is inherently about the relationship of word and image, which is to say, about different ways of communicating. It makes readers aware of limits, and also possibilities for expression in which disaster, or trauma, breaks the boundaries of communication, finding shape in a hybrid medium.”
— Dec 07, 2019 04:36AM
Can Richards
is on page 32 of 464
“Historically, there has been an association between comics and a kind of subpar literacy, as if comics reading could not be “real” reading. This is because of the widespread notion that visual literacy, which comics requires, is somehow less complicated than verbal literacy, which comics also requires”
— Dec 07, 2019 04:25AM
