Abstract
Neil Cohn’s The Visual Language of Comics provides an interesting introduction to “Visual Language” (henceforth VL) theory, which is a theory about the “language” through which comics are produced and interpreted. The book presents VL as a theory that can capture the psychological and cultural aspects of comics’ creation and consumption. For instance, it offers [...]References
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